Lula Smart cleared by a jury in third trial.
Third strike by the prosecutors: they’re out!
Will they stop wasting our taxpayer dollars now?
Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Daily Report, 17 September 2014,
Acquittal in Trial Over Absentee Ballots,
Lula Mary Smart was acquitted on 19 felony charges of voting
irregularities Wednesday following a month-long trial in Brooks
County Superior Court in South Georgia.
Despite some confusion in the WALB story,
the Lowndes County Board of Elections really is the second in the state to authorize Sunday voting, after a request from the Lowndes County Democratic Committee.
Dave Miller wrote for WALB 10 September 2014,
Sunday voting OK’ed for Lowndes,
The Lowndes County Board of Elections announced Wednesday that
Lowndes County will be the second county in Georgia to implement
Sunday Voting.Lowndes County Commissioners approved the proposal Tuesday. DeKalb
County is the only other county in the state that currently allows
Sunday voting.
I was at the
Lowndes County Commission meeting Tuesday, and I never
heard them mention this.
So I called Lowndes County Election Supervisor Deb Cox and Continue reading
“Thank you for not plea bargaining” said George Boston Rhynes
starting his series of videos on the ongoing third trial of
Lula Smart of the Quitman 10+2.
No newspapers, radio, or TV reporters at this trial
about voters’ rights.
But George is there.
Landowner Johnny Burt’s excuse for having Nydia Tisdale ejected
from an event advertised as a public campaign rally:
“She promptly sat down on the front row on the end where she would
be right in their face and was making everybody uncomfortable.”
Shades of Ashley Paulk’s excuse for wanting that
illegal bill of attainder Continue reading
Will three strikes against the prosecution
make it give up on trying to convict the Quitman 10+2?
Dear prosecutor, we know you read this blog, because
you asked potential jurors at Lula Smart’s second trial,
Have you read or talked to or followed a blog called “On the
Lake Front?”
So, dear prosecutor, when is enough enough?
Fannie MJ Gibs
notes that Quitman Free press
posted on facebook yesterday:
The retrial voter fraud case has been set for August 19 at Brooks
County Courthouse. See this week’s issue for details.
So far as I know, Quitman Free Press only prints on paper and
does not post any articles online,
so we have to guess they’re referring to the Quitman 10.
When George Rhynes first posted about the arrests
of the Quitman 10 in December 2010, he remarked:
Today’s arrest will surely end up in the courts.
Who would have expected it to be in the courts three times?
In July 2012, the Chair of the Brooks County Board of Elections
tried to throw George Boston Rhynes out of her board’s meeting Continue reading
From County Commissioner to Georgia School Superintendent
and U.S. Senate, you can vote in the primary election tomorrow,
if you haven’t already voted.
If I forgot any runoffs, please let me know.
It’s still not clear why the Board of Elections couldn’t afford to keep precincts open,
instead of
closing more of them every year.
But after several days of finger pointing
this week, it looks like there will be funding to keep all the current
precincts open.
That’s good news, but if the fix was so easy, why was there ever a problem?
Oldest first, here’s a timeline of highlights.
Back on 10 March 2014,
Deb Cox spoke to the Lowndes County Commission
about the
Board of Elections budget.
I just listened to that video again.
She did ask for more money for poll workers,
and there were comments about how early voting wasn’t revenue-neutral.
But I don’t see that she asked for money to keep precincts open,
or ever mentioned precincts closing.
27 June 2014 I happened to see Continue reading
One precinct off the list for closing, but what about others?
And what’s this about an unannounced change to the date of a
publicly-announced meeting of the Board of Elections?
After several people went to the 8 July 2014 Special Called Board of Elections
Meeting that I found in the VDT Public Notice listings,
and some of them talked to that board and to Lowndes County Commissioners,
apparently somebody listened.
According to Lowndes County Elections Supervisor Deb Cox to
Lowndes County Democratic Party Elections Chair Dennis Marks 13 July 2014:
Mildred Hunter is not being considered for consolidation. Deb
However, she did not say what other precincts might
still be slated for consolidation.
Rumor has it that Continue reading
Still 9 precincts
this year like
last year, but one of the polling locations
has changed (Pine Grove to Trinity),
and the precinct boundaries have changed.
Yet again the board of elections plans
still more fiddling with precincts this year.
There was a Special Called Board of Elections meeting yesterday,
and a regular meeting is
9AM Tuesday 22 July 2014.
Let’s update
last year’s polling place table. Continue reading
