After unanimously accepting Elections Administrator Heider Garcia’s resignation April 25, the Tarrant County Elections Commission unanimously voted to post the position on the county website and various online employment sites.
The Tarrant County Elections Commission is made up of the county judge, the county clerk, the county tax-assessor collector, and the chairs of the county’s Republican and Democratic parties. After the members voted to post the position, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare laid out next steps.
“The county will post the job description and the actual job on the county’s website and send it to multiple election-oriented websites,” O’Hare said. “According to law, the No. 2 in charge becomes the acting elections administrator until a permanent position is filled.”
According to O’Hare, resumes for the position will be reviewed by all elections commission members, and any member can choose for a candidate to be interviewed. The commission will then convene in a closed session to select two or three finalists from the pool of potential candidates and then decide by majority vote who the next elections administrator will be.
