“When I told the Board of Elections, they told me that was impossible,” Jones said.
Director of the Montgomery County Board of Elections Jan Kelly said that Jones was removed for “malfeasance in office.”
“She wasn’t performing her duties as a polling location officer,” Kelly said.
Kelly also said this is not the first time the board has had an issue with Jones.
“We had some incidents with her last time,” Kelly said. “She was saying things at the polling location that would put the integrity of the election at odds and not doing her job.”
Kelly said it is the board’s policy to remove someone in a situation like this.
“We’re afraid that when we have people out there not following our directions and what we’re telling them to do on Election Day, they’re not going to be able to close to polls right and may mess something up at the polling location,” Kelly said.
Voters in Montgomery County, and many other counties in the region, were voting on new equipment today. Kelly said some of the poll workers put the new election equipment into “training mode” instead of “election mode.”
This was the issue in Jones’ case, Kelly said.
“Heather Jones didn’t want to rectify that. She didn’t want to follow directions on how to solve that problem with the iPad,” Kelly said. “There wasn’t a problem, it was just in the wrong mode.”
Jones said that is a lie.
“I didn’t refuse to fix it. Why would I do that?” Jones said.
Jones called the reason Kelly gave for her firing a weak argument.
“Were votes messed up today? That’s what I am worried about,” Jones said.
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