In his petition contesting the mayor’s election in Kosciusko, Marvin Myles Jr. is claiming irregularities in the way the votes were counted. And he’s asking the Attala County Circuit Court to throw out the absentee and affidavit ballots and not include those votes in the final returns. The petition asks the Court, based on the remaining votes, to certify Myles the winner of the mayor’s race. As an alternative, he asks that the Court order a new election. The petition represents one side of a legal argument.
Mayor Tim Kyle and members of the Board of Aldermen were sworn in Monday for new terms beginning July 1. The final, official results reported from the June 3 general election showed Kyle beating Myles by 26 votes.
Louanne
June 25, 2025 at 11:20 AMThose absentee votes better not be thrown out! That’s the only way that some people get to vote (example working out of town). That’s gravely unfair and unconstitutional!
De
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 PMAbsolutely cannot just throw out people’s absentee ballots! That is unconstitutional and unlawful!
Pam
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PMIt is everyone’s right to vote no matter how it’s done. I agree that’s illegal.
Marie
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PMI agree re vote all over and let officials outside of Attala County district come in and run the polls
darren
June 26, 2025 at 9:34 AMthis happened before in the sheriff’s race if the other opponent won give it to him.
B. E. Johnson
June 26, 2025 at 9:46 AMI am replying to previous comments. I’d like to clarify something which is commonly misunderstood. In MS, the term “absentee ballots” refers to two types of voters and votes. (1) One is those people who go in person before the election to City Hall and vote there. That voting closes I think on Saturday at noon before the election. (2) Second is those people who mail in their absentee ballots. This is a picky procedure because MS has the most complicated “mail in absentee ballot” process in the entire U.S. You have to meet certain qualifications, get two notarized signatures, and return two forms.
FEI (For Everyone’s Information), EVERY single mail in absentee ballot in this particular election was THROWN OUT for some sort of defect. So, if people want to complain about votes getting tossed out, they need to yank their Favorite Son of Kosciusko by the ears and complain about the absentee ballot process in MS, which results in so many votes being thrown out. People have been complaining about it for years, and this is exacty why. In a crucial election, many ballots got thrown out (although actually they are rubber banded and archived).
FEI, the second type of absentee ballot, walk in before election absentee ballots, are typically done correctly because it is a one on one process between the voter and office staff. In this election, 126 or 100% were accepted and the vote counted, as evidenced by news posts made by the City. The issue arises about “throwing them out” because the City Clerk claimed on Wednesday after the election that there were 146 (and possibly more to come which never materialized somehow!) I can’t think of a good a***ogy off hand. Maybe if you were cooking something that called for three cups of sugar, which you stirred into a cake mix. You put in two, but “by human error” you stirred in one cup of salt into the mix. Now what! You can’t separate the sugar from the salt, so alas, the whole pot of mix has to be thrown out, or you’re going to have to eat a very salty cake!
Sherry
June 27, 2025 at 2:17 PMThis!!!!!