High-profile elections officials leave posts after a tumultuous 2020

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By Fredreka Schouten and Kelly Mena, CNN

Updated 7:02 AM ET, Fri February 19, 2021

(CNN) - A cluster of election officials around the country have lost or left their jobs in recent weeks, as the fallout from the tumultuous 2020 election season continues.

The exits come as experts say a wave of departures could be on the horizon, as elections officials reach retirement age or leave jobs that have become increasingly targeted in partisan political battles. Secretaries of state have broad portfolios, ranging from election oversight to registering corporations. The day-to-day responsibilities of administering elections generally fall to officials at the county and city level.

Indiana's Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the state's longest-serving elections chief, announced Monday her plans to resign, saying "2020 took a toll on me." On Tuesday, the Fulton County, Georgia, elections board voted 3-2 to remove elections director Richard Barron from his post in the state's largest county, citing the need to modernize elections. (His future is in flux after a county commission failed to ratify the election panel's decision.)

And Pennsylvania's top election official Kathy Boockvar, who became a familiar face across the country as she oversaw an intensely scrutinized presidential contest last November, resigned this month after her agency mistakenly failed to advertise a proposed constitutional amendment -- an error unrelated to the 2020 election.

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