Ballot shortages, delayed vote tabulations and faulty polling equipment resulted in a botched municipal election Tuesday that has everyone from Gov. Jay Nixon to the voting public denouncing the agency responsible for the fiasco: the St. Louis County Board of Elections. The polls had yet to close before Nixon, Secretary of State Jason Kander, County Executive Steve Stenger and countless voters delivered a verdict on the performance of an agency that managed to deliver incorrect ballots or no ballots at all to more than 60 precincts spread across the county. Stenger said Tuesday during the voting problems, “That board really needs to get its act together.” He said the situation “is completely unacceptable because it affects every resident in St. Louis County.”
Nixon, who appoints the members of the board, was notably aggressive, promising that Democrat Eric Fey and Republican Gary Fuhr, the officials heading the election agency, be “held accountable for this unacceptable failure.”
The governor’s spokesman deferred questions on Wednesday about the fate of Fey and Fuhr to the findings of an inquiry by the Secretary of State’s Election Integrity Unit.
Kander, who commissioned the investigation, said the process of debriefing election officials began Wednesday. Reeling from events that turned him into a target of abuse on social media and in polling places countywide, Fey acknowledged that job security could not be a priority.
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