Dallas County has a new election administrator: Paul Adams, who was named president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials in 2024 and is the Lorain County Board of Elections Director in Ohio.

The election commission Adams of Ohio on Tuesday after a nationwide search.

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He replaces Heider Garcia, who resigned to accept a job with Texas voting system vendor Hart InterCivic, which was better for his family, according to a county official.

Dallas county's Democratic Party chair Kardal Coleman made the motion to choose Adams.

That was seconded by county Republican Party chair, Lt. Col. Allen West, who had opposed Garcia's hiring.

Garcia had previously been Tarrant County's election administrator.

He accepted the same job in Dallas in 2023 after a di

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