Update: Mary Norwood Fights to Get on Ballot

UPDATE: Mary Norwood’s lawsuit against incumbent Fulton Commission chair dismissed

In his short ruling issued July 1, Judge Jerry Baxter stated, “The court finds, at this time, there is no actual controversy … and the ends of justice do not warrant a declaratory judgment.”

Norwood, who is attempting to gather some 23,000 signatures to qualify as an Independent on the ballot to run against Eaves for the Fulton County Commission chair post, filed suit last week after Eaves and his attorneys challenged “several thousand” of the signatures she has obtained.

My Fox Atlanta has a nice story with video about Mary Norwood’s continuing efforts to run for office in Georgia as an independent. Free & Equal Inc. is excited to be the national company working toward ballot access for Mary Norwood.

Norwood’s opponent in the race is current commission chair John Eaves and he contends that the forms Norwood is using to collect signatures aren’t legal.

Norwood is now asking a judge to rule on the matter.

It will take 22,000 signatures for the former mayoral candidate to make it onto the ballot as an Independent.
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Norwood has paid $50,000 to hire a national company to collect signatures and she says she’s confident she’ll get the number she needs.

Here are two more good articles following Mary Norwood and her hard campaigning.

Atlanta Progressive News, “Eaves Questions 9,000 Norwood Signatures for Ballot Access”.

Norwood has hired Free and Equal, a petition signature-gathering firm,

Neighbor Newspapers, “Norwood halfway to November ballot”.

To obtain the balance of signatures she needs, Ms. Norwood said her campaign hired Raleigh, N.C.-based Free and Equal Inc., specializing in helping “independent candidates acquiring ballot access.”

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