Baltimore City's elections director on leave, acting director to oversee primary election

BALTIMORE (WBFF) -- — The director of Baltimore City’s election is on leave ahead of the primary election, but an acting leader has stepped in.

According to Scherod Barnes, president of the Baltimore City Board of Elections, Election Director Armstead Jones is on leave, and has been for several weeks. Barnes said he wasn’t at liberty to disclose why Jones is on leave but said Deputy Director Abigail Goldman has assumed the role of acting director.

“We’re not missing a beat,” Barnes said.

Jones has served as the director of elections in Baltimore City since 2006. During the 2022 general election, Jones was briefly hospitalized and Goldman assumed the acting director role as well.




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