More than 3/4s of the signatures that led to mayor’s suspension came from just one part of Martinsville. It’s a neighborhood unlike the rest of the city.

More than 3/4s of the signatures that led to mayor’s suspension came from just one part of Martinsville. It’s a neighborhood unlike the rest of the city.

To win election to the Martinsville City Council in a closely contested election four years ago, L.C. Jones needed votes from all six of the city’s voting precincts to eke out a narrow, 91-vote victory. To remove Jones from office — suspended from office for two months — and put him on trial to be removed permanently, critics needed only one of those precincts. That precinct, which supplied more than three-quarters of the signatures needed to tr…