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Wilkinson voters head back to polls Tuesday to decide Primary
Published Saturday, June 21, 2008
WOODVILLE — More than 10 months after the initial elections, Wilkinson County voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide the results of the August 2007 Democratic primary in what is essentially a court ordered do-over.
Candidates Lynn Tolliver Delaney, Jessie Stewart and Kirk Smith challenged the results of the elections for circuit clerk, sheriff and district two supervisor, soon after the initial election.
Delaney is seeking the position of circuit clerk, Stewart is pursuing the sheriff’s seat and Smith is looking to reclaim the supervisor’s chair for district two.
All three were reportedly leading in the polls until the paper ballots — affidavit, absentee and curbside ballots — were counted.
Incumbent Circuit Clerk Mon Cree Allen, Sheriff Reginald “Pip” Jackson and District Two Supervisor Richard Hollins were the declared winners of the election until Sept. 6, when 17 members of the Wilkinson County Democratic Executive Committee voted to toss all the paper ballots after Delaney, Smith and Stewart brought allegations of fraud in the paper ballots.
That decision changed the results of the election, and Allen, Jackson and Hollins filed a contest with the Mississippi Supreme Court to challenge the decision.
Judge Jim Persons, appointed by the high court to oversee the election contest, later found in a court ruling that some actions were taken to delay a ballot examination request by Delaney, Smith and Stewart after the August election.
The court also found that some ballots were missing when candidates initially asked to examine them but were later in the boxes where they belonged when presented to the court.
The election contest dragged out over the course of months, and ended in late February when Persons declared the ballots could not be trusted because it could not be determined who had access to them between August and November, when the contest began.
Two court-appointed special masters, former Judges Barry Gibbs and Barry Ford, will conduct the election.
A special general election will follow, in which independent candidate Calvin Gaines will challenge the winner of the sheriff’s race and independent Donna Smith will challenge the winner of the circuit clerk’s race.
Comments
Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 3:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I pray we can have a fair election.
Sheriff Reginald L. Jackson, you have my prayers....
Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 3:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I pray we can have a fair election.
Sheriff Reginald L. Jackson, you have my prayers.
Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 3:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A True Man Of God
People are entitled to feeling however they want to feel about somebody. Therefore, how you may feel about Sheriff Reginald L. Jackson does not matter to him because he is a true man of God. And although you may try, you are not worthy of judging him. For our bibles tells us in Matthew the 7th Chapter and the 1st verse “DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.” So if you don’t know what you are talking about, you need not to put down on a man who has done so many great things there in Wilkinson County. So what you all need to do is stop hindering him and get behind him and help him continue to help Wilkinson County.
Let’s support this True Man of God.
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 9:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Poor Gods Child, you don't know what you are talking about ! I know the man and he uses God to fool the likes of you . To me that is the worst kind of sin . And I do not support him and I do not wish him well . He needs to be in jail !
Posted by kpage (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 10:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope all is fair in this new election.
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 4:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You will know immediately if Jackson goes back in.
Posted by SICKANDTIRED (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 9:43 p.m.
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Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 12:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Support whosoever you please. That's your right.
This is just my opinion and how I feel about it.
I got much love for you.
I pray that Wilkinson County will one day overcome all of that hatefulness.
God Blessings to All
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 6:58 a.m.
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Posted by SICKANDTIRED (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WHY ARE THESES COMMENTS BEING REMOVED
BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT
Posted by Swapmeet (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 12:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 3:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"For our bibles tells us in Matthew the 7th Chapter and the 1st verse “DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.” "
Gods Child,
Jesus also told His disciples "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Once again I will post a link below that is a lawsuit filed against the WCSO. It is a matter of public court records. You all can judge whether you want four more years of that kind of shenanigans in Wilkinson County.
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/SingleI...
Posted by SICKANDTIRED (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
SWAPMEET
Everyone is not perfect and we all make mistakes. You keep bringing up this lawsuit, but do you know the story.
Pip Jackson has done to many good things for this county for people like you to go behind his back and slay him. That is wrong. He started programs that helped all, including the senior citizens. By the way the Annual Senior Citizens Program was a success. Why criticize someone that is doing good for all citizen of Wilkinson County. It is not the sheriffs fault, its the people like that gives the county its bad reputation. Swapmeet what kind of a name is that anyway,it sounds that u were born in a swapmeet. So bag back off of my sherriff of 16 long year and I pray that God blesses him with 16 more long and proseperous years. Wake up and the coffee.
Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 2:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
S&T, I am not the person you think I am. I am not Lynn Delaney.
Posted by Swapmeet (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 3:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
S&T, What about the crack house on the Jackson, Louisiana road about a mile to a mile and a half before you get to Bayridge Road. Everyone in the county knows its a drug house but complaining never helped. Even law enforcement people I spoke with knew it was a drug house. Mysteriously though, everytime the Mississippi Narcotics people went to bust it, it became mysteriously empty. They knew that the search warrant was about to be executed. I wonder how they found out? Can you tell me why these drug houses are not busted unless it is politically convenient. What about the young man that got busted running drugs from Wilkinson County to Baton Rouge. You know, he threw out some cocaine riding the back roads of E. Feliciana Parish. He was a certain son of someone you know.
And the name swapmeet is a nickname that some friends gave me about 12 years ago. I haven't been called that in about 6 years. I graduated with highest honors from Co-Lin and will be graduating from Alcorn State in May 09 with highest honors. I will then be pursuing my masters and doctorate degrees as I work with young children, influencing them not to become corrupt political officials like some people have chosen to do. I don't say this to brag but to dispel your notion that I was born in a swap meet. So no, I wasn't born in a swap meet, and if I was, I have demonstrated that I can rise above my home circumstances unlike many who want to avert personal responsibility and blame their behavior as being a product of their raising which is a cop out.
And I don't believe in the prosperity gospel either. Name and claim it or whatever other spin you want to put on that false religion is not something that will lead one into a personal relationship with God. It will only lead them through the wide gate and broad path to destruction that many tread upon. Jesus said in John 3 that unless a man be born again, he shall not enter the kingdom of God. Can these people that hide behind religion and preach this prosperity nonsense tell you that moment in life when they repented of their wicked ways, died to theirselves, made Jesus the reigning supereme in every apsect of their life, and became born again entering the narrow gate and walking the NARROW path? The reason that I bring this up is because people relevant to this thread preaches those falsehoods.
Posted by GodsChild (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 5:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Touch not my anointed one and do my prophet no harm"
Rev. Jackson (Sheriff) was talking to a lady one day and she was telling him what his opponent was going around saying about him and he told her, "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world."
So that is why I say he is not concerned about what people say or think of him. No one here on earth can judge him. In fact, that is not our job. As long as he is teaching and preaching the Word of God, I am for him.
Posted by SICKANDTIRED (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 6:11 p.m.
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Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Swapmeet, I know of another crack house in Wilkinson County that was being watched very closely by theFBI and everytime the FBI was ready to make a raid , somehow they always knew they were the Feds were on the way . It has been a well known fact that Jackson is corrupt . He is apparently very charismatic to some people. He's slick but his day will come. He will be caught someday . Too many people know too much.Then maybe he can practice his preaching in jail .
Posted by SICKANDTIRED (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 8:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Southernbelle and Swapmeet,
I gonna give u the honest truth of my knoledge. Sheriff Jackson is a very concern sheriff, he tries to do everything that is good for the citizens of Wilkinson County. He can't do everything in one day. It takes time. He has to solve murders, burgularies, assults and ect. He is a very concern sheriff to me and he is doing his J~O~B.So why are you spreading the lies about him like that when your daughter is dating a drug dealer. Worry about that
Posted by Swapmeet (anonymous) on June 23, 2008 at 11:30 p.m.
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