As the East Baton Rouge Parish Registrar of Voters office continues the process of verifying a new batch of 4,630 signatures submitted last week by organizers of the St. George incorporation effort, opponents of the movement this week called into question the validity of more than 200 signatures on the original petition submitted by the incorporation group last October.
Officials with Better Together, which is fighting the incorporation, released a report this week claiming 239 signatures previously validated by the registrar’s office are potentially invalid—either because the signatories did not live in the proposed St. George footprint at the time they signed the petition or were not registered to vote.
In other registrar office-related news this week, former Metro Councilman Ulysses “Bones” Addison hopes to get back into city government—this time as the next East Baton Rouge Parish Registrar of Voters. Addison, who served three terms on the council from 2001-2012, is among 24 hopefuls who have applied for the position, which longtime Registrar Elaine Lamb is vacating as she retires.
