Election Board relocation approved; Split vote in favor comes despite Wheaton’s protest

Posted by John Small | Apr 29, 2020 | Main News

Despite the protests of County Election Board Secretary B.J. Wheaton, the Johnston County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to approve plans to swap the commissioners’ office with that of the election board. The vote was not a unanimous one. District 2 Commissioner Mike Thompson - the board’s current chairman who is marking his final term […]

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John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Election Board relocation approved; Split vote in favor comes despite Wheaton’s protest

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