The newly appointed Blanco County election administrator has resigned his position.

The county’s election commission accepted the resignation of Robert Sense at the June 18 commission meeting. Sense was hired as election commissioner last month, but was not set to start the position until July.

The county has struggled to fill the position since the previous administrator, Oscar Villarreal, left the job late last fall. The county started to advertise for his replacement in December 2019.

Judge Brett Bray called the elections commission regular meeting to order at 11:07 a.m. Laura Walla, county clerk; Kristen Spies, county tax assessor-collector; Carlette Lewis, county Republican Party chair; and Terry Casparis, county Democratic Party chair were present.

There were no public comments. The commission approved the minutes from the previous meetings.

Commission members approved a resolution to accept Sense’s resignation. A typo will be corrected in the resolution. Casparis moved to approve the resignation of the election administrator and Lewis seconded; the motion carried.

Casparis urged for the commission to meet soon regarding the 2020 election. Bray said that additional information will come soon, but this item was not on the agenda to discuss during this meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 11:11 a.m.