Huber is the current campaign finance manager at the Greene County Board of Elections. He began working for Montgomery County as a poll worker in 2010, and has worked in elections ever since, coming to Greene County full time in 2017. He was named campaign finance manager in 2021.
“I do want to show (the board) gratitude and thank them for giving me this opportunity to show them that I am capable of this,” Huber said. “I have over 10 years experience in the election industry, and I know things change constantly. But I feel that with my education and experience I can do this job well.”
Huber’s responsibilities include assisting Elections Director Alisha Lampert, a Republican, with the responsibilities of running county elections. In Ohio, county election departments work in pairs of Republicans and Democrats, aiming to ensure fairness. The director and deputy execute the day-to-day operations of the office, while the four board members have voting power and oversight.
The board of elections had been at odds along party lines over Huber’s hiring, with Republican members against, and Democratic members in favor, but came to a compromise Tuesday, Republican board member Bruce Hull said.
With less than a month to the March primary, Huber will fill the key elections role, and at the end of the 90-day probationary period, if the board cannot come to an agreement on whether to hire Huber on as deputy director, the board will re-publish a hiring notice for the deputy director position.
“It’s a two-way street. We get a chance to evaluate his performance,” Hull said. “And so I thought that was fair.”
Hull said the qualities he is looking for in a deputy director include more managerial experience, in part because the Greene County Board of Elections is on Administrative Oversight from the Ohio Secretary of State over multiple errors on the November ballot last year.
“We’ve had a culture of sloppiness for the last four years. We’ve had problems. And so I was looking for somebody that had managerial leadership,” he said. “But we have a long ways away until election time, and I’m cautiously optimistic that we will get this resolved.”
Democratic board member Kim McCarthy said she was “relieved” to have Huber in the role.
“Jordan is not only eminently qualified but deserving of the role after more than seven years of service to the voters of Greene County,” she said. “I am confident he will excel in this role and will provide strong support to our Director and to voters in this important Presidential year election. We look forward to working with our Republican colleagues to make this position permanent in 90 days time.”
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