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(Continued from Page 1) so registered voters in the district.
Kilpatrick asked on Monday if the signatures on Lane's petitions were those of registered voters.
“They’re all good and live people,” Wood responded. “Whether they’re registered or not, I don't know. I see some which aren’t registered,” he said, adding that it appeared a number of individuals had signed petitions for both Lane and Cannon.
“When we encountered someone who had signed Lane's petition, we didn’t ask them to sign (for Cannon),’ Kilpatrick replied, noting, however, that the people carrying Lane’ spetition around hadn’t followed that some procedure.
In addition to the petitions. Wood said he’d received telephone calls in support of both Cannon and Lane. “I was most gratified by the callers who told me they weren’t supporting either candidate and to vote my own conscience which is what I’ll do.”
A woman in the audience questioned the relevancy of the emphasis on having only registered voters sign petitions. "You don’t have to be a registered voter to pay school taxes,” she maintained.
The only relevance “is that they’ll be able to vote against me in the next election,” Wood explained. Maintaining that the county is fortunate to have “two good people” willing to accept appointment to the board, Wood nominated Nelson Lane as the representative from his district. The nomination was confirmed, 4-1, with supervisor Hubert Gilkey opposed.
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