Richmond Registrar Removed From Office Kirk Showalter, Richmond's General Registrar for over two decades, was removed from office by the city's board of elections Monday night. Last year, she demonstrated to a VPM intern how to use an absentee ballot for the 2020 elections. (Jakob Cordes / VPM News). The Richmond Board of Elections voted 2-1 to remove the city's top elections official Monday evening. Board members heard public comment on the matter, and then went into a closed session for three hours to deliberate and make a decision. Richmond’s votes took weeks to count, and partially reported results for some local races displayed misleading and sometimes incorrect numbers for hours or even days. Some campaigns raised concerns with Showalter’s office that they say still haven’t been properly answered months later.