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Council tables request to destroy election records after public comments; discusses $57,141.56 election grant
Summary
Public commenters urged the council not to approve destruction of election records from 2020–2023; the council voted to table the register's record-destruction request and heard from Election Director Kurt Barr about a $57,141.56 grant to update poll pads and maintain voter lists.
St. Charles County Council voted to table a request by the registrar to destroy certain election records from recent election cycles after multiple members of the public urged the council to preserve records tied to the 2020–2023 period.
Public commenters raised legal and transparency concerns. Jim Kozlowski presented federal-code language and urged the county to “play it safe,” reading from a printed citation he placed on the podium. He said the voting system “shall produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for such system,” and emphasized the word…
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