Election roundup: No "Mama Sid" on Athens ballots, DA hopeful seeks signatures

Kalki Yalamanchili, independent candidate for District Attorney in Clarke and Oconee counties, says he’s more than halfway to getting the 54 hundred signatures he needs to qualify for the November election ballot. Yalamanchili, a former prosecutor and now a private attorney in Athens, has until July to get the required signatures to run against Democratic incumbent Deborah Gonzalez.

Sidney Waters, the former Clarke County School Board member and Athens restaurant owner better known as Mama Sid, says she has been rejected in her bid to have her name appear on the ballot as Mama Sid. The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections, in a 3-2 decision, rejected her request at a meeting earlier this week. Waters is running for a seat on the Athens-Clarke County Commission, challenging District 8 incumbent Carol Myers in the election that will be decided on May 21.

There will be a November alcohol referendum in Walton County: the City Council in Monroe has, in a unanimous vote during this week’s meeting, has put on the ballot the measure that would allow for liquor sales within the Monroe City limits.

Rhonda Wood defeated Volley Collins in this month’s special election for a seat on the City Council in Oakwood. Now Hall County elections officials say some 200 ballots were cast by voters who live outside the Oakwood city limits. It’s a race Wood won by just 88 votes.

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