{"id":1457679,"date":"2025-11-13T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1457679"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:14:53","slug":"hawkins-election-overturned-over-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1457679","title":{"rendered":"Hawkins election overturned over signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/03\/HAWKINS--e1763041329303-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1309700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/03\/HAWKINS--e1763041329303-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/03\/HAWKINS--e1763041329303.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>HAWKINS &#8211; A Hawkins City Council election&#8217;s results have been overturned after over 100 ballots cast in the race for the Place 5 seat were ruled as invalid because voters did not sign a voter roster to certify that they were eligible to cast a ballot. Smith County 475th District Court Judge Taylor Heaton ruled that the election is now void, and the seat will be empty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAWKINS &#8211; A Hawkins City Council election&#8217;s results have been overturned after over 100 ballots cast in the race for the Place 5 seat were ruled as invalid because voters did not sign a voter roster to certify that they were eligible to cast a ballot. Smith County 475th District Court Judge Taylor Heaton ruled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1457679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawkins election overturned over signatures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1458193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/03\/HAWKINS--e1763041329303-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 06:21:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/03\/HAWKINS--e1763041329303-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458233,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457679\/revisions\/1458233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}