{"id":447,"date":"2012-02-20T22:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=447"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:26:13","slug":"ward-6-election-headed-for-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ward-6-election-headed-for-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward 6 Election Headed For Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Carver Rayburn<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Let's Vote Again, Y'all...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/43832173.gif?resize=261%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"320\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hotly contested <strong>Special Election for Ward 6 Alderman<\/strong> race came down to two votes. If those votes had gone <strong>Katie Morrison<\/strong>\u2019s way, there would not be a need for a runoff election. Instead, Morrison\u2019s 299 votes gave her 49.75 percent of the total, just shy of the 50 percent plus one vote needed for a win.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison will face Oxford native <strong>Jason Bailey<\/strong> in a special runoff election on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Bailey claimed 290 votes, or 48.25 percent. <strong>Liz Barrett<\/strong> received 11 votes and there was one write-in vote cast.<\/p>\n<p>The special election is being held to fill the seat vacated by former Alderman <strong>Brad Mayo<\/strong>. Mayo was elected to state congress in 2011.<\/p>\n<h5><em>Voters of Ward 6 can cast their vote at the Oxford Activity Center a the corner of Price Street and Molly Barr Road. Polls will be open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Carver Rayburn The hotly contested Special Election for Ward 6 Alderman race came down to two votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}