A Carbon County commissioner said he plans to step down from his post as chair of the elections board due to his support for a candidate in the upcoming election.

On Thursday, Commissioner Chris Lukasevich, the sole member of the board of commissioners on this year’s election board due to him not running for reelection, announced his intentions to step down as chair of that board because he plans to throw his support to a candidate during Tuesday’s election board meeting.

The elections board will then need to reorganize with either Ronald Sheehan or Gerald Dotter taking the chair position.

In addition, Lukasevich said that he plans to submit a letter recusing himself from the board due to his candidate support, to President Judge Roger Nanovic. The letter will ask that a replacement be selected.

This isn’t the first time Lukasevich has attempted to recuse himself from the elections board.

Previously, he was denied by Nanovic after he threw his support behind now Clerk of Courts Tyra Boni.

On Thursday, Lukasevich said that the three county judges have recused themselves from a pro se case they had against the last denial of his request and suspects an outside judge will be asked to consider the recusal while that case decision is occurring.