The mayor of a small Georgia city and two former election workers have been jailed on felony charges stemming from efforts to stop a local election last fall.

The mayor of a small city in Georgia and two former election officials have been jailed on felony charges stemming from efforts last November to halt a local election after one of the mayor’s allies was disqualified from a city council race.

Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens was being held at the Mitchell County jail Friday, two days after a grand jury indicted him on a felony charge of election interference and a misdemeanor count of conspiring to commit election fraud.

Also jailed were the city’s former elections superintendent, Rhunette Williford; and her former deputy superintendent, Cheryl Ford, who is currently Camilla’s city clerk. They were charged with the same crimes as the mayor, plus misdemeanor counts of failing to perform their duties as public officers.

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
    81·
    5 days ago

    Bro, this isn’t an opinion and that’s a massive misrepresentation of my comments. Obviously city elections are “political”, obviously candidates are affiliated with parties based on their personal beliefs and intentions, but that doesn’t change the fact that objectively, most city election ballots don’t include party affiliation information. Someone was wondering why they couldn’t find that information and I simply offered a possible explanation. Sorry reality seems to have hurt your feelings, idk what else to tell you 🤷‍♂️

      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
        81·
        5 days ago

        Then why did ask? Seems like you do care…and you should! Municipal elections are super important for the kind of transformative grassroots movements needed to wrench what tiny amounts of control away from the oligarchs that we can, while elections are still being held. Vote, bitch!