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Nora Waters.
The Stephens County Board of Elections conducted a called meeting Thursday, March 10 at the historic courthouse in Toccoa after which an interim elections supervisor was named.
Nora Waters was named by county administrator Phyllis Ayers as interim election supervisor until the county hires a new one.
She succeeds April Roberts who suddenly resigned on Feb. 28.
Waters had been filling the interim role since Roberts stepped down.
After working as a poll worker for a number of years, Waters began assisting at the elections office in 2019 and was officially named as Roberts’ assistant in the latter half of 2021.
Waters said the county likely will be interviewing candidates who have applied for the elections supervisor job next week.
She said that she will not be one of them.
“I am not interested in the full-time job,” Waters, who handled the 2022 qualifying period last week, said.
County administrator Phyllis Ayers said the deadline to apply for the job is tomorrow, Friday, March 18.
Ayers said she is confident in Waters’ experience until a new supervisor is named.
“Nora has a great deal of experience in the elections office and has been employed with Stephens County government since April 29, 2016,” Ayers said.
Formerly, the head of Stephens County elections office was hired by the chich judge of superior court but new county legislation enacted last year changed the elections office.
One of those changes made the county administrator the person who hired the elections supervisor.
Also at the elections board March 10 meeting, the board discussed new redistricting lines for the Stephens County Board of Education.
Ayers said that she will receive a new redistricting map for the board of education but that the districts will likely remain as they were after the 2010 Census until the new district lines are drawn.
Board of Elections chairman Sean Black said that it has taken some two years to redraw the district lines after the results of the 2010 Census were calculated.