Spring Cove School Board Could Send Message by Appointing Write-In Candidate to Open Seat

The 2021 general election was unlike any in recent memory as disenchantment with the state mandate for mask wearing in schools gave rise to a hard-fought, grassroots effort by write-in candidates to win seats on the board of directors in two local school districts.

In Spring Cove, write-in candidates Brenda Frederick, Travis Ott and Kevin Smith, running as a team under the banner of the Spring Cove Educational Integrity Alliance, each garnered more than 1,000 votes, with Frederick accumulating an unofficial tally of 1,279 write-in votes, just 308 fewer than the lowest vote getter on the ballot...