St. Louis County Board of Elections

Did you know that the Absentee Ballot Application will be available beginning January 26th? The sooner you complete and submit your application, the sooner you will receive it once the applications begin to be mailed on February 23rd. We will share a link to the application when it becomes available. #trustedinfo2021 #election2021 #votingplan

Seeking a job in the IT industry? We’re hiring for an IT Support Analyst, but only 2 days remain for you to submit your application! Check out the job description - https://indeedhi.re/3sku9fX - and apply by January 22nd. #stljobs

The County IT Department has completed their work on our website. All functionality has been restored.

The County IT Department is currently conducting work on our website, so some features are currently unavailable. They hope to have the site restored as soon as possible. We will let you know when the work is complete and full functionality is restored.

Today is the last day to file as a candidate for the April General Municipal Election! We are open until 5 p.m. Please remember only candidates filing for an office that we have a mutual agreement with should file at our office. All other candidates should file with their respective entities. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3sy671d. #trustedinfo2021 #election2021

Happy Veterans Day! Thank you all to those who have served or are currently serving our country! If you are in the military or are a military spouse, you can sign up for our Military voters list: https://stlouiscountymo.gov//voting-in-st-louis-county/mi/. When you register as a Military voter you will automatically receive an absentee ballot for every election in which you are eligible to vote during the year in which you apply and the following calendar year.

We are already prepping for the April General Municipal Election. Candidate filing begins December 15th and candidates will file with their local entities unless their district is in a cooperation agreement with our office we’ll have the final list of entities on November 24th. On November 19th, we’ll host our annual certification seminar for Municipal Clerks and other special districts via Zoom. This seminar is a good time for questions and answers regarding Municipal candidate filing and ballot certification.

Meet some of the heroes they are the front line of a successful election! Running a polling place takes a dedicated team that’s responsible for setup, troubleshooting and keeping everyone awake for a 14+ hour day. These people not only give up their time on Election Day, but they also take part in 2-3 hour trainings to stay updated on the latest information so that they can better serve you! Thank you again to all the Election Judges you make Democracy work!

You may think that November 3rd is the end of the election, but it’s not for our office there is still a lot of work to be done to finalize the results! On election night, all absentee ballots, mail-in ballots and polling place ballots are tabulated and the unofficial results are released (https://extcontent.stlouisco.com//eResul/el201103/2004.pdf). Any provisional ballots from Election Day and any military or overseas ballots received until 12pm on Friday are kept ...sealed until a bi-partisan team makes determinations about provisional ballots and tabulates military or overseas ballots. All ballots from polling places are ran through a counting machine to verify the number of ballots against the electronic data compiled by the ballot scanners at the polling places. A recount of ballots from a random sample (5%) of precincts is completed to ensure the accuracy of the election night results. Once verification is complete, all ballots are sealed and securely kept at the County Record Center for 22 months. Final results are posted to our website and certified to the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office within two weeks of Election Day.