Early voting in St. Charles County will continue as scheduled, county election officials said Wednesday night, as a court weighs a legal challenge filed by a Republican committeeman.
Travis Heins of St. Peters alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that St. Charles County Elections Director Kurt Bahr improperly kept him from acting as a poll watcher or challenger at in-person early voting locations in St. Peters and Wentzville.
St. Charles Circuit Judge Daniel Pelikan granted Heins a hearing on his request for an emergency injunction at 9 a.m. Friday.
The lawsuit says that Bahr would not allow Heins to act as a poll watcher at early voting locations because those ballots are not counted until election night.
Heins contends that Bahr said during a radio interview Tuesday on NewsTalkSTL (101.9 FM) that votes were actually being counted at early voting locations, however.
St. Charles County has seen a record number of early voters so far, double the rate from 2020.
