ATLANTA – The government of Georgia’s most populous county must pay $10,000 a day until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board under a judge's ruling issued Wednesday.

Superior Court Judge David Emerson found that the Fulton County Board of Commissioners had not complied with his earlier order to appoint the nominees to the election board. In his decision earlier this month, he said the law does not allow commissioners to veto qualified nominees proposed by political parties.

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In his new written order in which he held the Board of Commissioners in civil contempt, he imposed a fine of $10,000 a day, starting at noon Friday to be paid daily to the state “until such time as the Commission shall act to appoint the nominees of the Republican party's ex

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