The Hall County Board of Elections is asking for an injunction against the county government to stop it from taking any personnel action against Election Director Lori Wurtz.
Wurtz is serving a 90-day probation period after receiving a poor performance evaluation in February that cited problems during the 2020 election cycle. The 90-day probation period is expected to end in April.
The request for the injunction came in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hall County Superior Court. In the suit, the elections board is claiming county officials violated the state constitution when they amended the election board s enabling legislation in 2018 to make the elections director report to the county administrator instead of the elections board.
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Hall County court officials have summoned 150 jurors for a potential trial week March 10, hoping they can soon return to a regular schedule and normal court business.
All February trials in Hall canceled; grand jury off until at least mid-February
All trials in February for both Hall County Superior Court and State Court are canceled, and a new grand jury will likely be at least another month away, according to court officials.
Northeastern Judicial Circuit courts coordinator Margie Reed-Payne said in an announcement Friday, Jan. 8, that the circuit canceled the trials in February across both Hall and Dawson counties in accordance with an order from the Georgia Supreme Court.
“While we were prepared to resume, having worked with health and county officials to implement every possible preventative protocol, the current circumstances are of grave concern,” Chief Superior Court Judge Kathlene Gosselin said in an emailed statement. “Jury proceedings must and will return soon, but given the still-rising case numbers and the strains already placed on our local health system, the judges are in agreement the best course of action
Hall County voter challenges rejected by election board. Here s why Voters are being mailed applications to vote absentee in the May 19, 2020, primary. - photo by Shannon Casas
Four challenges to local voting in Georgia’s Jan. 5 runoff were rejected by the Hall County Board of Elections Wednesday, Dec. 23.
Ricky McQueen, Theresa Webb and Chris Fetterman all were asking the board to find that probable cause existed in challenges that there may be people not eligible to vote in Hall because they have changes of address on file with the U.S. Postal Service.
And a fourth person, Robert Michael Smith, challenged the votes of 40 residents who registered to vote between Nov. 4 and Dec. 7, “as well as some voters he’s challenging for residency requirements,” election director Lori Wurtz said.