Posted on 10/07/2004 6:33:50 PM PDT by Reynolds
VAN BUREN, Mo. - Officials in one Missouri county are reprinting absentee ballots for the Nov. 2 general election after discovering that President Bush (news - web sites) and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) were left off.
The ballots were mailed beginning Sept. 21, and Carter County Clerk Becky Gibbs said several voters noticed the oversight.
"We are rectifying it," she said. "There was no intent to leave them off."
Fewer than 500 of the erroneous ballots were sent out, and some have already been returned.
Replacement ballots will be sent to everyone who requested an absentee ballot along with a letter explaining the error.
Terri Durdaller, spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, said that if absentee voters who previously returned a ballot send a new one, it will replace the previous one. If they don't return a new ballot, their first one will be counted.
"The key is just to make sure everybody does get the changed ballot," Durdaller said.
Ballots that other voters will use Nov. 2 have not been printed yet.
Gibbs said the cost to print replacement absentee ballots should be minimal.
Only 7 counties in Missouri have fewer registered voters than Carter county (4,537).
http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/registeredvoters.asp?rvmID=0004
In 2000, Carter county went 1,730 to 997 for Bush/Cheney over Gore/Lieberman.
Mistake??? They don't proofread the ballots before they go out? And the incumbent isn't on the ballot? How stupid do they think we are?
I agree with you. They need to toss those out immediately, and send a new voter form for all the absentee ballots they previously sent out. The DemonRAT Party IS a criminal organization, and they CANNOT be trusted.
Good find and
Welcome to FR.
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"This is MESSED UP! They can't COUNT the bogus ballots that come in that didn't even OFFER Bush/Cheney as a choice! Those "answered" ballots should go in the TRASH and on the new CORRECT ones count or none at all. This is awful."
This is worse than just "MESSED UP", this is criminal negligence! Someone is responsible for this insult and whoever it is needs to be punished. Severely punished. The ramifications of this outrage are staggering in its potential scope.
Good, I sent to the Gov. I figured go right to the top.
Yeah... Right... And Mohammed Atta was really attempting to land at JFK.
I received an automated response in approximately 15 seconds from the gov's office but nothing yet from the AG or Sec of State. Of course, the gov's office just said they received my email.
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