From the West Alabama Newsroom–

The town of Fort Deposit finds itself in uncharted territory — after a judge throws out the results of the municipal election — and orders a new election.

People in Fort Deposit will head to the polls after the holiday season — to chose a mayor and the remainder of the town council.

This comes after Lowndes County Circuit Judge Cleveland Poole found that hundreds of illegal absentee votes had been cast in the municipal election back in August.

Poole then threw out the illegal votes and the election results — and ordered a new election.

Since the election was thrown out — the only officials sworn into office on November 3rd — were the two town councilmen who ran unopposed in the election.

The two are now running the town for the time being.

Darrell Hea

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