As elections loom, county searching for supervisor

Nine weeks before what is likely to be a challenging election day on Nov. 8, Barrow County is still without an elections supervisor.

The county’s first attempt at finding a replacement for Katie Ferm, who left in late July, was unsuccessful, and the position had to be re-advertised.

A team of county officials was scheduled to go through the second batch of applications Wednesday. As of the newspaper’s Sept. 7 deadline, there was no word on whether the additional applicants have the requisite training and experience for the job.

Holding down the fort in Barrow County Elections and Voter Registration in the meantime are Monica Franklin, an elections assistant who is the office’s only full-time employee, and her mother, Jeannine Hardigree, the long-time voter registrar who retired in 2009 as part of the county’s reduction-in-force, but has been working part time in the office for several months.

Franklin admitted last week that she is feeling the pressure of having to plan for several complications of what are often relatively simple municipal elections.

“We are in the meat of it now,” she said.

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#1 TickedOff on 09/07/11 at 07:32 PM [Reply]

Here's a thought, my dear commissioners. Ya'll don't mind using volunteer workers at the polls. I do realize they are paid a small sum. But most also do it for the volunteer part and fun. How about contracting this job out every time there's and election. The position does not require a full time employee. Not in this county. Voter turn out is less than 15%. Pay someone to do it only when needed. It'll save you another salary and insurance position if you are so concerned about finances. But do us all a favor, make sure the contractor can count and add better than Kissalita and Williams.

#2 Fortitude on 09/08/11 at 09:05 AM [Reply]

why dont they let Monica handle it and then have two part timers ?

#3 Jack Legg on 09/08/11 at 11:14 AM [Reply]

We need to keep a close eye on this election, what we have here is the perfect opportunity for yearwood to tamper with and manipulate the vote. This is how things are done in the third world dictatorships where people keep having "free: elections and reelecting despots.
Barrow county is definetly third world and we defitely have a despot in control.
I would like to see the federals or at least the state closely monitoring this process....I smell a rat.

#3.1 Anonymous on 09/10/11 at 11:11 PM [Reply]

Why don't you "monitor" it yourself, lizard?
I swear, you and 2 other imbeciles have to chime in on every story that runs.

#4 TickedOff on 09/10/11 at 11:00 PM [Reply]

Jack, sometimes you post things that are too ignorant to comprehend. This is one of them. Yearwood has about as good a chance of winning reelection as you do getting elected. He cant win even if he could "fix" it.

#5 important on 09/18/11 at 11:34 AM [Reply]

With all the blogging elsewhere, this is a source of concern for me. We have been warned about upcoming problems concerning this and yet we have still no resolution here. Has there been updates on this?

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