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The ongoing feud between the Hall County elections board and county administrators could soon be heading to a courtroom.

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 elec...

What the Hall County Elections Board says it needs and why it needs it Hall County's elections board and staff process absentee ballots Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. The process involves verifying signatures and placing ballots in batches for counting. Votes won't actually be tabulated until Election Day. - photo by Scott Rogers Does the Hall County elections office have the infrastructure to handle the upcoming municipal and general primary elections? For now, the Hall County elections board doesn’t think so. “One of the thi...

GAINESVILLE – Members of the Hall County Board of Elections and Registrations were silent Tuesday afternoon on any possible legal action they may take in an effort to gain supervisory control of the Elections Director position, but they weren’t hesitant to speak loudly in support of the Elections Director, Lori Wurtz, by what they said and did during the meeting. Board members took turns verbally praising Wurtz’s work during the challenging 2020 election process, and then reinforced their words by unanimously passing a resolution to seek from the Hall County Commission a doubling of her...

Introduction Some voting laws working their way through the Georgia legislature could make it harder for local officials to cut down on long lines at the polls, according to an analysis from the Center For Public Integrity and Georgia Public Broadcasting News. GPB’s Stephen Fowler reports. (Courtesy Georgia Public Broadcasting) Stephanie Lopez-Burgos stood in line about 35 minutes when she went to vote early in Georgia’s Senate runoff election and felt lucky it wasn’t longer. She saw social media posts from many Hall County residents who waited more than an hour — some of whom had to ...