St. Charles County’s elections director predicts the fate of a countywide sales tax will be decided tomorrow by less than 10 percent of the registered voters in St. Charles County.

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Rich Chrismer said there are 240,000 registered voters in the county. If 10 percent cast their votes, that would mean his staff would have about 24,000 ballots to count.

He doesn’t expect to see that many ballots, though. He said his office has fielded very few questions about the election.

“It doesn’t seem like there’s very much activity out there,” Chrismer said.

The lone issue on the ballot ^[2] is a sales tax increase of 0.05 of a cent ^[3] to pay for an emergency communications system.

Mark Schlinkmann has written more about some of the politics surrounding the ballot issue here ^[4] and here ^[5].

The polls open at 6 a.m. They close at 7 p.m. Chrismer said he would love for his prediction to be wrong.

Are you planning to vote? If you aren’t, why aren’t you?