Arizona’s Pinal County elections director has resigned after less than a year on the job, saying county supervisors had tried to politicize elections in the jurisdiction east of Phoenix.
Pinal County confirmed Geraldine Roll’s resignation in a brief note posted online Tuesday, with County Manager Leo Lew thanking Roll for her service “during very difficult times and for the improvements she identified and began to implement “.
The role could not be located Wednesday for comment.
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In a letter released by Pinal County, Roll said she was subjected to “ridicule, disrespect, intimidation and attacks on my reputation and ethics.”
She also accused Lew of failing to protect her from attacks by Republican county officials.
Geraldine Roll, the director of elections for Arizona’s Pinal County, has resigned after less than a year on the job. (Pinal County via AP)
“It’s a long way to see how you’re going to deliver clean elections when you bow to a faction of the Republican party,” he wrote.
She signed off, “Seriously, no with respect, Geraldine Roll.”
Roll is a former deputy county attorney who was named elections director late last year after the county suffered several embarrassments, including a primary vote that left some races without ballots and some precincts without ballots on election day. Roll had yet to file an election herself.
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Pinal County then discovered just before the end of 2022 that it had made errors in counting some ballots, resulting in a discrepancy of approximately 500 votes between the certified elections and the recounts. The region has a population of around 450,000 inhabitants.
County supervisors had recently expressed interest in a trial hand count of some 2022 ballots.
