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County clerk posts 70 years of election records online, clerk credits elections supervisor
Summary
County Clerk Brian Smith said the clerk’s office has scanned and posted 70 years of local election history to the county website, a project led by elections supervisor Ashley McMurtry.
Hardin County Clerk Brian Smith announced the clerk’s office has scanned, uploaded and indexed approximately 70 years of local election records and made them available on the county website.
“This project is now available on our website,” Smith told the fiscal court, adding that the files are accessible under the elections tab and that the material includes polling locations, poll-worker listings and historical election outcomes. Smith credited Ashley McMurtry, the elections supervisor, for leading the project and said she spent many hours preparing and indexing the records.
Why it matters: The archive provides public access to historical election materials from the county without the need to visit offices in person, which can help researchers, families tracing poll‑worker service and residents seeking historical election outcomes.
Smith said the archive is indexed and includes instructions for using the records; he noted a full name index would have required substantially more work and was not part of the current release. No formal action or funding request accompanied the announcement.
