Most attending ever seen at the Lowndes County, Georgia, Board of Elections! Potential closure of the Clyattville voting precinct was the issue. That won’t happen because of the strength of the Clyattville community in organizing and working with the union hall.
The union hall, at 5421 Madison Highway, is Continue reading
After seeing reports of Democrats being required to vote provisionally
in three different polling places (Clyattville, Hahira, and Trinity Baptist Church), I called Lowndes County Elections Supervisor Deb Cox at 229-671-2850.
She said the problem was in creating the cards for voting, not in the actual voting machines. A separate machine called an Express Poll creates the cards. She said it was in the program on the Express Poll machines, which was uploaded improperly. The result was that some people couldn’t get cards. Meanwhile, people could still vote using provisional ballots. She says it’s been fixed, and nobody has reported any problems since early this morning. This is the same thing she told Valdosta Today.
When I told her people had also been reporting that they got a card and found that they were marked as Republican when they asked for a Democratic ballot. Deb Cox said nobody has reported that to her. She asks for anybody who sees that or any other voting problems to please call her office, 229-671-2850.
If you have any difficulties, ask for a provisional ballot and call that number. Continue reading
Every Valdosta City Council seat up for election is contested,
a couple of Valdosta School Board seats, one Hahira City Council seat,
and five people are running for four Lake Park City Council seats.
Although this is a nonpartisan election, all candidates are invited to speak tonight at the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP) monthly meeting, 6PM Monday 14 September 2015, at Mama June’s Home Cookin’, 3286 Inner Perimeter Rd., Valdosta, GA. Around 20 of them will speak, so here’s your first opportunity to hear directly from most of the candidates.
Here’s the list of candidates who qualified for this election, according to the Lowndes County Board of Elections, formatted the way they sent it. Continue reading
It’s good the Commission is having these meetings where they can
hear directly from the various department heads.
And with LAKE’s videos, you the citizens can hear what the departments
are asking for.
Also, why are these called budget hearings? The public doesn’t get to speak, so they are not actually public hearings, and they are not the state-required budget hearings before passing a budget: they don’t even have a draft budget yet. And the next time the Commission rushes citizen speakers to finish, remember this 14 minutes of dead air or the several others like it in yesterday’s meeting.
They met in the Commission Chambers, nevermind the address on the Commission’s calendar yesterday, and still says for today’s meeting.
There’s still no agenda posted, except for paper copies in the Commission building, which read as below. Continue reading
Received by email 8 January 2015, with no agenda and no other materials. -jsq
Notice is hereby given that the Lowndes County Board of Elections will conduct a public meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 4:30 p.m., at the Lowndes County Elections office, located at 2808 N Oak St., Valdosta, GA 31602.
All interested parties are invited to attend.
For meeting information, please call the Elections office at 229-671-2850 or e-mail elections@lowndescounty.com.
They usually have Citizens Wishing To Be Heard first and they let citizens converse with them during the rest of the meeting. They meet 4:30 PM Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at the Lowndes County Elections office, 2808 N Oak St., Valdosta, GA 31602. There’s no posted agenda that I can find, and no posted list of board members. I’ve sent them an inquiry.
Agenda PDF and inline below. -jsq
Lowndes County Elections
Deb Cox
SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONSMadlyn Hightower
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF
ELECTIONSLOWNDES COUNTY ELECTIONS
LEGAL NOTICE Continue reading
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
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
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
It’s a good thing the county held these first-ever (as far as I know)
comprehensive budget sessions.
Here are videos of the first day.
Most of the departments are asking for more money,
due to increased population and increased demand for services
during a period of economic downturn.
Something needs to be done, and these sessions are one step in
getting to doing something.
Here’s the agenda.