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Green Elaine Brown tossed from ballot
Posted by Roger Snyder | October 18, 2005
[From The Brunswick News]
Brown was visibly upset by the decision, and still claims her residence in Brunswick was sufficiently proven by her voter registration – dated Nov. 5, 2004. Brown cited a Georgia Supreme Court ruling which she said proves that the only residency requirement for the purpose of seeking local office is that a person be a registered voter in the election in which he or she seeks to participate.
Elections panel says she failed residency test
By KEITH LAING
The Glynn County Board of Elections has decided that Brunswick mayoral candidate Elaine Brown cannot participate in the upcoming municipal election – as either a candidate or a voter.
The elections board voted unanimously Friday to disqualify Brown as a candidate for mayor and remove her from the voter rolls after a week of considering whether or not she has lived in the city long enough to be a candidate.
That now leaves Bryan Thompson and Otis Herrington as the only mayoral candidates on the Nov. 8 ballot. Resident Betsy Bean, who’s application to run for mayor was disqualified, plans to run as a write-in candidate. It is too late for Brown to declare as a write-in.
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