A judge ordered the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to be fined $10,000 a day starting on Aug. 29 for failing to appoint two nominees to the county’s Board of Elections and Registrations.

Superior Court Judge David Emerson ruled in a contempt hearing sought by the Fulton County Republican Party after the commissioners failed to comply with the court’s order to appoint the party’s chief executive officer’s nominees, Jason Frazier and Julie Adams, to the board of elections.

The judge declined to hold the commissioners in criminal contempt, writing in his order that the court was not punishing them for past disobedience, rather to make them comply with the order.

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