The elections director in Georgia’s most populous county remains in his job for now after county leaders failed Wednesday to take action on the county election board’s recommendation a day earlier to fire him.
Fulton County Commissioner Bob Ellis moved during a Board of Commissioners meeting to accept the election board’s Tuesday decision to fire Rick Barron. Three commissioners voted yes, three voted no and Commissioner Natalie Hall didn’t vote. The vote failed for lack of four votes, Chairman Robb Pitts said.
Commissioner Marvin Arrington then moved to reject the election board’s recommendation to fire Barron. The result was the same — three yes votes, three no votes and Hall again not voting, saying she didn’t have enough information — so the motion failed.
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