Elections bill corrects flaw

Last year during the municipal elections in Albany, one aspect of the controversial Ward II City Commission race was headed in a patently unfair direction before Albany City Manager James Taylor stepped in.

The election still has not been fully laid to rest, though Ivey Hines was seated at the commission table to represent Ward II. His opponent, Melissa Strother, is challenging the results with a lawsuit in Dougherty Superior Court.

Strother charges irregularities in the election, but the biggest issue is whether 247 votes that were cast for a third candidate, Cheryl Calhoun, who was disqualified from the Ward II race, should have been included in the total number of votes cast. Dougherty elections officials ruled, based on information from state elections officials, that Calhoun