An application for discretionary appeal has been filed with the Georgia Supreme Court in the challenge of Effingham County Commissioner Vera Jones’ candidacy for re-election.
Springfield attorney Rick Rafter filed the nine-page appeal on Wednesday on behalf of his client Andrew Brantley, a voter in Jones’ District 2.
Rafter said allowing the decisions by the Effingham Board of Elections and Superior Court Judge F. Gates Peed to stand “would be a total miscarriage of justice” because they permitted a person holding public funds to be a candidate for office, a “violation of the public trust.”
The Board of Elections decided on April 4 to dismiss the challenge and Peed on May 21 affirmed the board’s decision, saying there was “no evidence to support petitioner’s claim that any money was being unlawfully held.”
via Appeal filed in Effingham candidacy case | savannahnow.com.
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