A slight discrepancy with the paper absentee ballots forced election staff to recount about 240 paper ballots, but with all precincts reporting, there had been 4,378 votes in favor of moving to a multi-member board with 4,252 in favor of staying with a sole commissioners. There were 240 paper absentee ballot sent in by mail. With the first count, the vote was divided almost equally with two more votes in favor of the sole commissioner. However there was a one-vote discrepancy in that tally forcing the staff to perform a recount of the paper ballots and delaying the final results until after press time…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We live in one of the few remaining places in the country that has a Sole County Commissioner. The county [Pickens County] has one city [Jasper] and a county government of one. Our current Sole Commissioner is a good guy who has done a decent job, but his predecessor was in cahoots with the Mayor and there was a lot that seemed pretty shady. The only real powerful reason to have a Commission is so as to avoid being prey to a shady Sole Commissioner [and we were]. Our current Commissioner was elected by a margin of 19 votes for his first term, and won his second term handily against the same rival.<\/div>\n
There was a brisk debate about a multi-person commission. Retaining a Sole Commissioner was favored by most of the politicos, including the current Commissioner. The local State Representatives weighed in and there were many meetings about the controversy, including the local Tea Party. So on the ballot, it was Sole versus Multi-Commissioner – yes\/no<\/em>. Then it was: if we have a multi-commission, will it be three\/five<\/em> members [the main point being cost].<\/p>\nAnd the winner is
yes<\/em>, a three person commission<\/em> – maybe<\/u>. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s final. Partisanship played little role in this [since we Democrats all know each other and can meet in small spaces, and anyway mostly only Republicans run for local office]…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County moving to a three-person board of commissioner Pickens Progress 11\/2\/2010 In a county where close races are the norm, Tuesday’s narrow decision to move to a multi-member board of commissioners was no exception. At press time, the unofficial result was Pickens County will move to a three-person board of commissioners when the current sole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}