MARIETTA — Two Cobb County cities, Acworth and Powder Springs, will decide next week if their Nov. 5 elections should be called off since no one signed up to challenge incumbents during qualifying this week.
Cobb’s cities have a seven-day period after qualifying for residents to apply to be write-in candidates. That deadline is Sept. 4 for Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta, and Sept. 5 for Powder Springs and Austell, said Janine Eveler, director of the Cobb Board of Elections.
The city of Smyrna is not holding an election in November.
Eveler said there is no fee to be a write-in candidate because the person’s name would not appear on the ballot.
“It is up to (the candidate) to campaign to get people to write them in,” she said.
The candidate must show proof that he or she has announced their candidacy in a local newspaper.
via The Marietta Daily Journal – Acworth Powder Springs could cancel elections.
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