One Removed from Kilgore College Trustee Race
Posted/updated on: March 24, 2011 at 2:27 am
KILGORE – A candidate for Kilgore College school trustee is out of the race because his application was ruled invalid. That leaves school trustee Larry Woodfin unopposed. John Kossa’s application was ruled invalid due to an incorrect portion on his affidavit.
Karol Pruett, election authority for the college, consulted with the Elections Division of the Secretary of State. They advised her that the application should be rejected due to a significant error on the face of Kossa’s application. “This is unfortunate,” Pruett said. “It was a simple mistake that could have been corrected, but there just wasn’t enough time before the deadline.”
Pruett said Kossa, who lives in Liberty City, filed just hours before the deadline. Pruett said she phoned Kossa to let him know about the errors and asked him to submit a corrected application right away so he could be included on the ballot. However, Kossa was out of town and not able to resubmit the application in time.
Since no write-in candidates filed to run against Woodfin, he is now considered uncontested in the KC Board of Trustees election on May 14. Woodfin has served on the KC Board of Trustees since 1999, and has been board president for the past two years.
