Friday, June 8, 2012

Election commish misses qualifying deadline

Hinds County Ward 2 Election Commissioner Bobbie Graves did not submit her qualifying papers Monday afternoon as required by law, although she did submit her fifty signatures required by law as well, to the circuit clerk. June 4 at 5:00 pm was the deadline for candidates for election commissioner to submit their qualifying papers to the Chancery Clerk. Ms. Graves did not do so until after 9:00 AM on June 5.

The Mississippi Code states:

"Candidates for county election commissioner shall qualify by filing with the clerk of the board of supervisors of their respective counties a petition personally signed by not less than fifty (50) qualified electors of the supervisors district in which they reside, requesting that they be a candidate, by 5:00 p.m. not later than the first Monday in June of the year in which the election occurs and unless the petition is filed within the required time, their names shall not be placed upon the ballot. All candidates shall declare in writing their party affiliation, if any, to the board of supervisors, and such party affiliation shall be shown on the official ballot.

The petition shall have attached thereto a certificate of the registrar showing the number of qualified electors on each petition, which shall be furnished by the registrar on request." Section 23-25-213 of the Mississippi Code

Chancery Clerk (the clerk of the supervisors) told this correspondent Tuesday Ms. Graves did not submit her petition until after 9:00 AM June 5. June 5 was Tuesday. The Supervisors will ratify the ballot but the code does not give them the power to place Ms. Graves on the ballot, but only says it can verify she met the requirements of the statute:

"The board shall determine the sufficiency of the petition, and if the petition contains the required number of signatures and is filed within the time required, the president of the board shall verify that the candidate is a resident of the supervisors district in which he seeks election and that the candidate is otherwise qualified as provided by law, and shall certify that the candidate is qualified to the chairman or secretary of the county election commission and the names of the candidates shall be placed upon the ballot for the ensuing election."

The statute does not allow for any excuses or exemptions from meeting the June 4 deadline. Ms. Graves was in court at the Stokes-Jackson hearing Monday afternoon. However, there were no proceedings requiring her presence that day. The hearing was delayed until 2:00 PM (the scheduled start time was 1:00 PM) as it took an hour to obtain a court reporter. Judge Richard McKenzie qualified jurors from 2-3:00 PM. Judge McKenzie recessed while the circuit clerk composed jury panels. Judge McKenzie entertained a motion to reconsider for twenty minutes. The court did not begin voire dire of jurors until after 4:00 PM Monday and continued until after 2:00 PM Tuesday. The law only requires Ms. Graves to submit her petition to the chancery clerk. It does not say she has to do so personally or prevent her from filing via messenger.

Josephine Anderson, the wife of Ward 2 Supervisor Doug Anderson, qualified for the election. The election is in November.

Posted by Kingfish at 10:54 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Quite appropriate. This woman doesn't have sense enough to ........(fill in your favorite) including aything about running elections. The only one worse is her counterpart on the EC - the
guy from District 3!

If she doesn't know how to qualify herself, why in the world would the voters of Hinds County (District 2) have entrusted her with the responsibilities of elected office. (Guess that is a stupid question - forgot I was talking about voters in Hinds County.)

But there is no give in this law. You must file by 5:00 and you nust file in the Chancery Clerk's office. She had five months to do this - didn't have to wait until the last day - when she was "busy".

Good day for Hinds County. Six more months and Graves will no longer be sucking money from the county till for doing nothing.

She is delusional enough that she believes today that she will be on the ballot - because she is black and in Hinds and therefore, the rules don't apply to her.

June 9, 2012 at 5:32 AM
Anonymous said...

all hinds county district 2 voters should not have voted for a bobby graves in the first place. send her running! this woman is has no intelligence at all. ...no concern for the people. she is a real crook, a pernicious liar. I am a member an organization in which her same character, her sister brought in. this woman has trampled its code of ethics with all the things she has done. she is all for self. a big show of thinking everybody has to revolve around her. send her trucking.

June 9, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Remember this is Hinds County.
I would bet cash that she appears on the ballot.

June 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Shadowfax said...

Are some of you actually suggesting that black politicians would stoop to making up their own rules?

June 12, 2012 at 2:55 AM

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