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While there may be tax credits at the Federal level, at least 17 states charge additional registration fees for electric vehicles once the battery gets above a small (hybrid) battery size.

They do this to make up for loss gas taxes, but charge for such at a flat rate that does not factor in mileage or if you have a plug-in hybrid.

So if you purchase your electricity from charging stations which try to be gas-price equivalents, you end up paying more to fuel an electric car than had you just fueled a gas one.

When Georgia implemented their fee (one of the highest at $200/year, $300/year for commercial use), Tesla sales fell 83% and did not recover. This was true even though the state also had an electric-car income-tax purchase discount.

Total BS. Nelson is losing and he knows it, so he's starting the "Russians stole it" crap to try and de-legitimize Scott's win. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is saying the same thing.

It is the same reason the New York times ran a bogus op ed about Georgia voter suppression in preparation for Stacey Abrams, the first black woman nominated to run for governor, losing.

Considering the left leaning Atlanta Journal Constitution says Black, nonwhite voters on the rise in Georgia, AJC analysis shows that must mean who ever is working to suppress minority voting is doing a piss poor job.

This is all the Democrats have. They have no message, they are running either as socialists or as Trump resistance. In other words, they want to take every thing you have or they want your vote because you're supposed to hate Trump. They know this is a losing argument so they have to start now claiming "muh Russians did it".

As a longtime resident of Atlanta (almost 30 years), I can say the incompetence and corruption of the Atlanta city government is well known around here. The higher up people are mostly political cronies who have no idea what they're doing.

Not to impugn the character of the rank-and-file IT workers. No doubt they're doing the best they can with what little the city gives them to work with. If an investigation were launched -- and it never will be -- I have little doubt it would find IT has been screaming for funds to get proper security and backups implemented and those screams have been ignored. Why spend money on IT security when you can spend it on a worthless streetcar system nobody uses? Or perhaps an entertainment venue in the middle of a crime-ridden area nobody wanted to go to? Or how about a mini-golf "fun park" nobody wanted to visit in downtown Atlanta?

All these fiascos were paid for in whole or in part by Atlanta taxpayers and always seemed to get built and run by people really friendly with Atlanta politicians. Nah, no corruption to see here folks. Move along and keep electing the same morons every time the elections come along.

You can tell it as it is: ... where you vote for Trump, but the machine records Clinton. Video's of the opposite occurring do not exist.

Wrong.
http://www.myajc.com/news/news...
The voter in Georgia selected Hillary but Trump lit up instead.

Much as I appreciate information about right-wing revisionism rivalling that of - for example - Stalin's Soviet Union, did the Texas school board really require that text books refer to African-American slaves as "workers"?

I ask, because this article suggests that the shocking error was due to the publishers of the book, McGraw-Hill Education (their apology without explaining why they made such a ridiculous error might be considered a classic of its kind), and not, on this occasion, the Texas school board. But, as the writer of the article comments: "One of the most remarkable aspects of this story is how long the "worker" description went unnoticed. Under Texas rules, textbooks are posted online for public review and apparently this material was up for a year without anyone flagging it. I often wondered if anyone looks at the curriculum materials posted by states for public review and comment. I think we have our answer."

Extracts from the article:

A Texas mother created a social media tidal wave with her Facebook posting of a high school geography book caption that described Africans brought against their will to labor on American plantations as "workers."

Under the heading "Patterns of Immigration," the world geography book states: "The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."

In the week since Texas parent and doctoral student Roni Dean-Burren posted from her 15-year-old son's textbook, McGraw-Hill Education has apologized and offered to replace some of the 100,000 textbooks in use in Texas schools or provide a sticker with a more accurate caption.

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program's next print run.

McGraw-Hill Education is committed to developing the highest quality educational materials and upholding the academic integrity of our products. We value the insight the public brings to discussions of our content.
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Do you have any evidence that their traffic ticket revenue exceeds their budget for traffic enforcement?

Like this?

Folks, in case you didn't already know this, you don't want to be too rude to these people even though they're in prison. They have phones and they have friends on the outside, and they know who you are and where you live.

http://www.myajc.com/news/news...

Also, the FCC has been a endless obstacle to blocking prisoner's phone calls.
The fear is that cellphone jamming might interfere with people driving by the prison yakking on the phones, or maybe the employees might want to use their phones. I suppose it's a good thing that people talking while driving takes precedence over blocking crimes.

Maybe this will help.
https://gcn.com/Articles/2013/...
Someday.

Or you could look at the region's demographics and party preferences before pulling insults out of your ass http://www.myajc.com/local-gov...

There's more information about the scandal on the AJC's (easily circumvented) paywalled site: MyAJC:Voting irregularities alleged in LaVista Hills election

The article includes a key detail not mentioned in the slashdot summary:

Leonard Piazza, the second in command in DeKalb’s elections office, said there were serious problems regarding the LaVista vote.....Piazza said he took the memory card and copied information from DeKalb’s voting tabulation server so that he could try and prove tampering. But those actions aren’t allowed, and he has been placed on paid leave.