Fairfax County’s board of elections announced Friday it had fired the head of the county’s elections office. With less than two weeks before primary elections, it appears to create potential for disruption in Virginia’s largest county elections office. In a statement, the county said Cameron Sasnett, the county’s general registrar, was relieved of his duties after the three-member board met Friday. Sasnett also said the board of elections had falsely accused him of misusing a county credit card. “This was apparently something they had in the works for awhile.”The termination comes as Fairfax’s elections office gears up for the primaries in a county with 700,000 registered voters and 243 precincts.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 23:48 UTC