View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/06/01/cobb.county.ibook.lawsuit/ Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005 5:50pm Lawsuit may halt Cobb County iBook deal A former Cobb County commissioner has filed a lawsuit to stop the school board's iBook laptop program. Former Commissioner Butch Thompson accuses school officials of planning to misspend taxpayers' money. Thompson claims that voters were not informed that a 1 percent sales tax would be used to start the program. County voters approved the tax in 2003. The lawsuit contends that language was not specific enough to inform voters that the system intended to provide computers for all students in grades six through 12. "I didn't vote for laptops for every student in the county, and I don't think anyone else did," Thompson said. "In essence, they took funds designated for one purpose and used it for something else." The first phase of the program costs about $25 million, which the school board approved in April.