AMERICUS —
In a called meeting Friday, the Sumter County Board of Elections and Voter Registration voted unanimously to reject two candidates for the Sumter County Board of Education. The candidacies of Brantley Wills for District 4 and Linda Wright for District 1 were challenged by the Board of Elections.
Members present were Chairman Thomas Sims, Secretary June Ewing and members Mike Tracey and James Gaston. County attorney Bill NeSmith was also present.
The first order of business was to hold a public hearing on the challenge. No one appearing, including either candidate, the Board of Elections voted.
Brantley Wills, a former resident of Webster County, had moved to Sumter County and had changed his residency but not his voter registration.
NeSmith said the Georgia Secretary of State is emphatic that a candidate cannot seek office in a district in which he does not live or is not registered to vote.
Linda Wright was seeking to run in District 1. When she presented herself to qualify for election, she was told that she actually lives in District 6. She said she and her family had been voting in District 1 for many years. However, she paid her qualifying fee for District 1.
NeSmith reiterated the Secretary of State’s position that it doesn’t matter where a candidate has been voting, even if it’s erroneous, but that she can’t seek office in a district in which she does not live.
He said the road on which Wright lives splits Districts 1 and 6.
“It’s the candidates’ responsibility to go to the map and make sure they live where they think they live because there can be clerical errors ... “ NeSmith said. “The Secretary of State’s Office says if she’s been voting in the wrong district, this should be corrected immediately.”
NeSmith also said the elections supervisor and staff should know the procedure and have it in place.
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