This story was updated on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at 6:54 p.m.
It was almost the election that wasn’t.
Balloting didn’t finally begin in a special election to the city council in the southwest Georgia town of Camilla until 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, and didn’t straggle to a close until 3:50 a.m. Wednesday. A judge intervened to order the election to proceed after Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens invoked his emergency powers Monday to cancel the voting after two city election officials resigned.
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