Ashley Barron has helped with local elections for the past five years as part of her job in the county clerk’s office here. Dawson County elections will become her full-time responsibility in just a couple more weeks. Barron has been hired to become the county’s firstever elections administrator. She will begin that new position on July 1. “I’m nervous but I’m excited,” Barron said Tuesday afternoon. “I think it’s going to be good.” She was hired for the position Monday by a 3-0 vote of the recently-created Dawson County Elections Commission. The hiring was approved by a resolution of the Dawson County Commissioners Court on ...