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JACKSON — After a special election, a runoff election and a court hearing that invalidated the runoff election, LaRita Cooper-Stokes and Joyce Jackson will square off for their fourth bout for the Ward 3 Jackson City Council seat July 24.

A jury unanimously found in favor of Jackson and set aside the runoff election, held Feb.

28, in which Cooper-Stokes defeated Jackson by 156 votes.

Larita cooper stokes biography of michael jackson

The city held the election after no candidates earned a majority in the Feb. 14 special election. The jury heard allegations of Cooper-Stokes' supporters campaigning within 150 feet of polling locations, unsolicited voter coaching and assistance, and one instance of a poll manager using a racial slur to refer to Jackson, who is of mixed heritage.

"I already feel like I'm victorious (given) the mere fact that I have exposed all of the fraud and discriminatory practices that were done (on) both Feb.

14 and Feb. 28," Jackson said Tuesday. "I burned the haystack down, and I found the needles