Cobb County is dealing with another investigation from the state’s election board following a lawsuit alleging that the Cobb County Board of Elections failed to send out more than 3,400 absentee ballots on time. In that lawsuit, where county officials claim they sent the ballots out on time but that postal holidays delayed them, Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill has ruled that affected voters be given more time to turn their ballots back in. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger meanwhile pushed back, saying that sweeping mandates changing state election law right before an election is a bad precedent. Elections drama that promises to spill over past election day has the Cobb SINKING…
City has entire police force resign
The small town of Milner (population 1,000) in Lamar County, about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, saw its police chief and all five officers resign due to a a “lack of trust in the city council and mayor.” Chief Lamar Bunn accused Mayor Craig Timmons of placing a tracker on his personal truck as part of an odd saga that led to the resignations. Milner city officials say they’ll likely push to unincorporate, since the police were about the only service the county didn’t provide. The odd circumstances have Milner and its residents SINKING…
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