A county in Georgia on Tuesday voted to remove its elections director after struggles during the 2020 election. The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections voted 3-2 to remove Richard Barron, its elections director, a week after the board held a similar vote that was declared invalid because it occurred during a private part of a meeting. The new vote saw Republican members Dr. Kathleen Ruth and Mark Wingate support the removal of Barron. They were joined by Vice Chair Vernetta Keith Nuriddin, a Democrat. “The 2020 election cycle did highlight many vulnerabilities in the Fulton election system, errors, sloppy and inefficient processes that really are unacceptable,” Ruth said. She pointed to the State Election Board referring the county to the state attorney general for allegedly violating election law and disenfranchising voters in the June 9, 2020 primary elections. Chairperson Mary Carole Cooney and Aaron Johnson, both Democrats, wanted …