The Mayoral election in Gulfport got downright nasty during its last week and of course there were some Election Day shenanigans. Check out this bit of "info" that made the rounds on Facebook Tuesday:
The message was spread by supporters of Democratic candidate Sonya Williams Barnes. Predictably, a bunch of people showed up to vote by affidavit ballot who lived in Harrison County but did not live in Gulfport. Over 200 such ballots were thrown out when the votes were counted.
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Third world city/county in a third world state doing everything possible to remain at #50. Mississippi is not the 'sip, it's the suck.
Offended by everything. Ashamed of nothing. Entitled to everything. Contributing nothing.
Largely happened in Ward 7 where this word started. Total of 244 affidavit votes cast in that one ward, requiring poll workers to stay well into the night letting those "voters" complete their affidavits; then requiring the election commissioners to work an extra four hours Wednesday night rejecting them. Of the 244, slightly over 200 were rejected for not living in Gulfport; a few others for living in Gulfport but other areas of the city.
Foolishness to the nth degree; I imagine now the losing candidate in her infinite wisdom will begin by screaming racism, followed by threats to file a contest claiming they should have been counted.
BTW, if this had been in Hinds County with the qualify of election commissioners there, likely that 230 or so would have been counted - but that's of course due to the theory that everyone that shows up to vote should be allowed to have their vote counted. (And before the Madison Couontians chime in, up until five years ago, you had an election commissioner there that professed this same theory while under oath in an election contest!)
The stacy abrams SOP.
Let's eat!
Terrible. We now live in a society where obvious wrongdoing is happening in plain sight. It's good the count was handled pre winner determination, and not after. Then you might have had the losing candidate calling someone in authority asking them to find the required number of votes in order for them to win. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.
"Clear people." That's a new one.
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While I am an advocate of voting early and often, I didn’t get that far south this cycle.
You couldn't be more correct.
What’s a city limit to a Democrat?
10:40 for the best win EVER since KF started.
I've been call a lot of things but never 'clear people'.
What do you mean by 'lived in other parts of the city'? A municipal mayor is elected by the electorate of the entire city, not by certain 'parts of it'.
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