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Officials use shredder to recycle unneeded records
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By Bob Watson
News Tribune
The presence of a mobile paper-shredding truck outside the Cole County Courthouse Friday morning had some people calling the newspaper with questions and news tips.
But officials said the shredder was part of the county's routine business.
“We shredded the remaining blank ballots from the last election, and then we shredded (records from) the last two elections that were over 21 months old,” said Cole County Clerk Marvin Register. “We only have to keep those for 21 months.”
Prosecutor Bill Tackett also has paper documents that, on a regular basis, get recycled through the shredding process.
After the documents are stored electronically, he said, “They come in every so often and they're shredded after that.”
No paper is destroyed if the law says it's supposed to be saved, Tackett said.
Register said his office doesn't have space to keep the older, voted ballots, when there no longer is any chance for a recount demand and state law no longer requires them to be held.
“We only have to keep those for 21 months,” he said.
“From now on, I will always use that shredder after each election to shred the remaining, unused ballots.
“We don't need them, and (this way) there's none around that anybody can ever get ahold of do anything with.”
But officials said the shredder was part of the county's routine business.
“We shredded the remaining blank ballots from the last election, and then we shredded (records from) the last two elections that were over 21 months old,” said Cole County Clerk Marvin Register. “We only have to keep those for 21 months.”
Prosecutor Bill Tackett also has paper documents that, on a regular basis, get recycled through the shredding process.
After the documents are stored electronically, he said, “They come in every so often and they're shredded after that.”
No paper is destroyed if the law says it's supposed to be saved, Tackett said.
Register said his office doesn't have space to keep the older, voted ballots, when there no longer is any chance for a recount demand and state law no longer requires them to be held.
“We only have to keep those for 21 months,” he said.
“From now on, I will always use that shredder after each election to shred the remaining, unused ballots.
“We don't need them, and (this way) there's none around that anybody can ever get ahold of do anything with.”
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