The Greene County commissioners officially approved hiring Mount Morris native Joe Lemley to helm the county’s elections bureau. Commission Chairman Jared Edgreen said Lemley’s hiring puts the county “well on our way to restoring faith to the office.” Lemley is the sixth person to lead the office since 2020, when longtime elections director Tina Kiger […]
Growing up in the Mt. Morris area, Joe Lemley enjoyed helping out at the local polling place in town during elections even before he could vote. Lemley, who spent 25 years as a public school teacher and administrator, is now melding his passions for voting and public service as Greene County’s newest elections director. “Knowing […]
Greene County officials are in the process of recertifying their election results after a judge mandated they count nearly 200 “uncured” mail-in ballots that mistakenly included multiple district magistrate races for voters to choose. President Judge Lou Dayich recently ordered the county elections office to parse through all mail-in ballots with that error and segregate […]
Out of the nearly 1,500 mail-in ballots counted in Greene County following Tuesday’s election, more than one-third of them had “overvotes” in the commissioners race, although the amount of them