Howard County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Tony McGuffin called for an end to the “chaos and disarray” engulfing the county?s elections board ? a situation Democrats believe could open up the November election to fraud.

“The Republican infighting over the hiring of what should be a nonpartisan Board attorney is both unseemly and unsettling,” wrote McGuffin, in a letter Monday to Betty Nordaas, director of the Howard County Board of Elections. “[News] reports depict histrionic scenes of chaos and disarray. Moreover, the behavior of the Republican-controlled Board exposes the possibility of a partisan stacking of the deck with a partisan lawyer for post election manipulations.”