An application to recall Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree was denied Wednesday.
Board of Elections Executive Director Travis Doss said the board voted 4-0 to reject the application because it lacked the needed 100 sponsors.
Staff was able to to verify 26 of the 42 sponsors, Doss said.
Several either did not sign their name, left an illegible signature or listed an address where no voter was registered, he said.
The signatures were compared against voter registration records, he said.
Had it met the sponsorship criteria, the recall application would have needed 30% of registered voters to effect a recall, Doss said.
The man who filed the petition is former Augusta employee Eric Loggins, the husband of Solicitor General Omeeka Loggins.
The solicitor said she supported her husband’s decision “100%” after the sheriff’s office took little action when a motorist crashed into her car while it was parked at her Wheeler Road home.
“We are fighting not only for ourselves but for the community as a whole,” Omeeka Loggins said. “I think we got his attention, and that’s what we intended to do.”
Roundtree has not responded to messages seeking comment. He has a challenger, Eugene Brantley, in his bid for a fourth term on the May Democratic primary ballot.
