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The system was set up using statewide election of 5 commissioners 1907, when the Georgia State Legislature was doing things like passing things like the Felder-Williams Disenfranchisement Act to strip African-Americans of the right to vote. In 2000, they set up districts, but preserved the statewide-election thing.
From other reporting, it sounds like she wanted the woman to move out early.