Fulton County Chairman Forces Future Competitor To Add "Fulton" To Signatures Gathered

AJC: Mary Norwood sues John Eaves over demand for handwritten ‘Fultons’

Ironically I am having a debate today with a resident of Cleveland OH who is slamming Ohio former Secretary Of State Ken Blackwell for "denying Black people the vote" by his antics.   It comes as no surprise that this "Attack Sheep Dog" (who is a Black male) refers to Blackwell in words akin to what a Black male of the past heard just prior to him being lynched.  If you recall Blackwell enforced the rule that all voter registration forms must be printed on paper of a certain stock.  Thus the activist groups that didn't read the regulations and used copy paper had to redo their forms.

I get the feeling that John Eaves - the present Chairman of the Fulton County board which Mary Norwood is running against will NOT be referred to as a "vote suppressor" for enforcing the technicality that all signatures collected by his future competitor, Norwood, must have the county specifically designated in order to be confirmed as valid.

The purpose of this post is to bring awareness of the situation and to ask that you keep an ear out for the names that Eaves is called.


AJC Story:

Mary Norwood, running as an independent candidate for Fulton County Commission chairman, says she has sued Democratic incumbent John Eaves — for allegedly using a picayune point of law to sabotage her campaign.

Norwood needs 22,000 or so signatures – 5 percent of Fulton County’s registered voters — by mid-July in order to have her name placed on the November ballot.

Norwood says that Eaves, relying on what she calls a “hyper-technical interpretation of the law,” is insisting that the word “Fulton” be handwritten, by each signer, along with a street address. Eaves is being represented by former congressman Buddy Darden of Marietta, with the influential firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge.

Norwood says her campaign received written approval from the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections to “pre-type” the word in the space requesting the signer’s county of residence.

Because if it says “Cobb” or “DeKalb,” the signer can’t also be on the Fulton County list of voters.

The demand for handwritten “Fultons” would jeopardize thousands of signatures she’s already gathered. Norwood seeks an emergency ruling from a superior court judge.

“This is further proof why residents of Fulton County deserve another choice for commission chairman this November. We need anyone who cares about ballot access or is a supporter of mine to come out and sign the petition,” Norwood said in a press release.