{"id":180702,"date":"2026-04-30T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:53:07","slug":"jim-wertz-removed-as-erie-county-elections-chair-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180702\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Wertz Removed as Erie County Elections Chair | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie County Council voted Thursday during a special Board of Elections meeting to remove Jim Wertz from his position as Elections Chair.<\/p>\n<p>Wertz was removed in a 4\u20133 vote, with Vice Chair Chris Drexel selected to serve as the new chair.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting began with a verbal disagreement among council members, prompting officials to move into an executive session. Council members later returned to the public meeting before taking the vote to remove Wertz.<\/p>\n<p>The decision stems from what officials described as a conflict of interest involving Wertz\u2019s association with the Election Truth Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Council voted Thursday during a special Board of Elections meeting to remove Jim Wertz from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1963,136,14322,138,137,56000,80610,33024],"class_list":["post-180702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-board-of-elections","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-council","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-executive-session","tag-jim-wertz","tag-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}