Malinda Hodge insists push to merge Elections Board and Registrars Board is politically motivated
Malinda Hodge
This is an op-ed by Chatham County Elections Board Vice Chairman Malinda Hodge. She is one of our elected members of the elections board.
The duties and functions of the Chatham Board of Registrars and the Board of Elections are distinctly different. Those tasks cannot be combined any more than those of U.S. Customs and the U.S. Postal Service. A merger, as proposed by Georgia Rep. Jesse Petrea (R-Savannah) would be akin to common-law marriage partners wedding legally not very much would change, for better or worse.