The man who is seeking to challenge incumbent Western Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez says he has more than double the number of signatures needed to have his name placed on the November General Election ballot. Kalki Yalamanchili delivered his petition to qualify as a non-partisan candidate to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office Monday.
Yalamanchili said he needed 5,406 signatures that could be validated, but he achieved more than 14,000 signatures. He said he and his supporters had a goal when they began the petition in January to obtain 6,500 signatures. Yalamanchili, who served about six years as a prosecutor in the Western Circuit DA’s office and previously for Cobb County, said he wanted to run as an independent even though he would have to obtain thousands of signatures to be on the ballot.
