Buckingham County, Virginia, lost two registrars amid baseless voter fraud allegations and as Republicans gained control of the electoral board. Now, some are worried what will happen as allegations of wrongdoing have “torn the fabric of the community.”
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“The simplest explanation about elections here in Buckingham County is that they are fraudulent,” Gutierrez said in a public meeting of the county’s electoral board in January.is far from over for the county. On Tuesday, Gutierrez was fired by the Buckingham County Electoral Board, which oversees the office, the latest development in the community's ongoing crisis of confidence in its electoral system.
Gooden was falsely accused of being ineligible to serve in the polls in January, because she is an appointed official on the county planning commission. Only elected officials are barred from serving as poll workers in Virginia. She said she’s tried to convince other poll workers not to quit when they tell her they don't want to return.
Yet, a Republican member of that board, Karen Cerwinski, nonetheless hired Gutierrez to serve as interim registrar in April. She acted alone — without a quorum legally required for electoral board business — after two other members of the 3-person Thomas Jordan Miles III, a Democrat on the Board of Supervisors, sent two requests for information from the registrar’s office, citing Virginia's freedom of information request rules, and received a furious, almost 1,000-word email from the registrar., Gutierrez said he’d be adding a $200 “convenience fee” to any of Miles' requests for information under Virginia’s FOIA laws and complained he was being disrespected by the requests.
He says he attended the University of Virginia, St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and Liberty University for a PhD. He Cerwinski said Tuesday that he was fired for lying on his job application. Gutierrez did not respond to a request for comment on his firing, or Abbott and Hanes' remarks.In mid-April, Cerwinski, who did not respond to requests for comment, called an emergency meeting of the electoral board. At the time, she was the only member.
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