{"id":484,"date":"2012-02-29T19:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-02-29T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:51:57","slug":"jason-bailey-wins-ward-6-runoff-election-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/jason-bailey-wins-ward-6-runoff-election-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Bailey Wins Ward 6 Runoff Election in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford, Miss. (TLV) \u2013 Oxford native<strong> Jason Bailey<\/strong> has been declared the winner of the special election and runoff for Oxford, Mississippi&#8217;s Ward Six. He will serve a fifteen month term to the Board of Alderman. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/JasonBailey.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485 alignright\" title=\"JasonBailey\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/JasonBailey.jpg?resize=136%2C155\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hotly contested seat on the board began after former Ward Six Alderman <strong>Brad Mayo<\/strong> was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives last November. A special election was held Valentine&#8217;s Day with candidates <strong>Katie Morrison, Liz Barrett<\/strong>, and Jason Bailey squaring off for the remaining time of May0&#8217;s seat on the board. No candidate gained enough votes to win, so a runoff election was held February 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>After counting the voting machine ballots &amp; the absentee votes at the Activity Center Tuesday night, Jason Bailey had 394\u00a0 votes to Katie Morrison&#8217;s 379. There were 25 affidavit ballots that were examined Wednesday morning. Bailey was declared the winner, 409 votes to Morrison&#8217;s 382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford, Miss. (TLV) \u2013 Oxford native Jason Bailey has been declared the winner of the special election and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}