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Owen County Election Board sets Feb. 25 hearing for candidate challenges and schedules March 24 public testing
Summary
The board established a hearing on Feb. 25 at 9 a.m. to consider nine candidate challenges and set a public testing of election equipment for March 24 at 9:30 a.m.; a board member said they will arrange a Republican proxy for testing due to travel plans.
At its Jan. 17 meeting the Owen County Election Board established a hearing to consider several candidate challenges, which the board said total nine. The board set the hearing for February 25 at 9:00 a.m. in the county courthouse meeting room and said the findings from that hearing would be discussed the following day “on the 20 sixth at 9AM.”
Unidentified Speaker 2 confirmed the hearing time, asking, “Did you say 9AM on February 25?” and Unidentified Speaker 1 affirmed the hour. The board stated a vote was not required to set the hearing date; instead, they noted the hearing had been advertised.
The board also approved a public testing of voting equipment for March 24 at 9:30 a.m. Unidentified Speaker 1 said, “I will be out of town on that day,” and that they would arrange for a Republican proxy to verify their portion of the testing. The board approved the testing with the proxy requirement by voice vote; the transcript records members responding “Aye” and the chair declaring the motion carried.
Together the scheduling actions are part of the board’s preparations for the upcoming election cycle. The board did not provide additional procedural details about how the candidate challenges will be resolved or the identity of the proxy appointed for testing in the meeting record.
