Effort to Recall Mayor Denson Failed

Officials cite improper procedures, bad signatures, as problems.

  The Clarke County Board of Elections and Voter Registration on Monday determined there weren't a sufficient number of valid signatures on a petition to recall Mayor Denson. The particular effort, initiated by Jim Daniels, failed. According to state law, a successful petition needs to have 100 signatures of Athens Clarke County voters who were registered to vote last fall and who could have voted in the election that put Mayor Denson in office. And those signatures could be collected only by someone who is him or herself a registered voter. When Board of Elections officials examined the 115 names and signatures on the Daniels petition, they found Daniels had collected 18 of those signatures before he was registered to vote. Some names …

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