Fairfax County’s elections chief accepts D.C. post at critical time

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has named a neighboring county’s elections chief as its permanent executive director, filling a long vacant slot at a critical and potentially stormy time.

Rokey W. Suleman II, Fairfax County’s general registrar, joins the D.C. elections office at a tumultuous moment: The board was asked last week to decide whether recognizing gay marriages legally performed elsewhere, as the District has agreed to do, is a proper subject for a referendum.