St. Charles County judge rejects lawsuit to halt early voting

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. (First Alert 4) – A St. A Charles County judge dismissed a lawsuit aimed at stopping early voting.

At the beginning of this weekSt. Travis Heins of Peters, St. filed a petition against St. Charles County Elections Director Kurt Bahr. In the petition, Heins argues that he should be able to participate as a poll watcher during the early voting period because votes will be tabulated as voters place their ballots in the tabulating machine.

State statute allows both parties to designate poll watchers at polling places on election day. For absentee voting, poll watchers and challengers are allowed at locations where ballots are being counted, such as at the election authority.

Bahr also said that as voters placed their ballots into the tabulating machines, the votes were counted but not counted. He said the machines were turned off after the polls closed on election night. At this point, ballots are counted, tabulated, and the information is transmitted to the election authority along with the paper ballots.

On Friday, the judge dismissed the case due to procedural error, stating that he did not meet the requirements to file the lawsuit.

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