...eight years on the board. In recent months, its members had dealt with the difficulties of replacing long-time elections Director Deborah Marshall, who retired after brain surgery, and in fighting proposed legislation that would have changed...

...earlier version of this story incorrectly stated how the members of the Elections Board were chosen. Now that a new elections director has been hired, a Columbia County lawmaker wants to put a new elections board in place.However, the chairman...

Deborah Marshall won't return to work as Columbia County's elections director.Marshall retired at the end of the year after convalescing at home since surgery on a malignant brain tumor April 9, Board of...

...of the Columbia County Board of Elections met Wednesday to begin wading through the applications for the vacant elections director's position.With 45 applications for the post left open with the retirement of Deborah Marshall, the process...

...Nancy Gay has been promoted to Columbia County's elections director, succeeding the retired Deborah Marshall.The...for hiring, Long said.Marshall, the previous elections director, retired in December. She had been on medical...

...voter registration card, that doesn't necessarily mean you will be able to vote, said Richmond County Board of Elections Director Lynn Bailey."I've really been trying to stress that you shouldn't assume if you are registered to vote...

...election officials said."We had about 30 or 40 people waiting in line at 8:30 a.m.," said Richmond County Elections Director Lynn Bailey.Bailey said 927 voters went to the polls Monday.In Columbia County, the first person lined up just...

...more day to get it done.Today is the last day polls will be open for advance voting in Georgia. Richmond County Elections Director Lynn Bailey expects almost 4,000 more voters to cast a ballot at the three polling locations open for advance...

...more than half his life."I've been doing this since I was 13, and now I'm 30," he said.Richmond County Elections Director Lynn Bailey said all the polling places are normally set up no later than 3 p.m.Even though nearly half of the...

Columbia County's elections director has been released from the hospital where she was being treated for a brain tumor and is recovering at home.Deborah Marshall...