Johnson County Recalls Ballots in 2 Precincts
by Brian Sharp, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Johnson
County has recalled 201 absentee ballots and scratched hundreds more
after discovering Thursday that an Iowa Senate race was omitted in two
precincts.
The omission of the District 40 race between Sen. Thomas Fiegen,
D-Tipton, and Republican challenger Jim Hahn of Muscatine affects
ballots for the Scott Township and West Branch Annex precincts.
There
are a combined 1,272 registered voters between the precincts, of whom
14 already voted in person or by mail. Another 187 absentee ballots
were sent out but have not been returned.
Slockett
said an elections technician discovered the error while programming a
ballot-reading machine. The discovery comes one day after Secretary of
State Chet Culver halted absentee voting in Des Moines, Henry, Lee and
Louisa counties where ballots omitted a judge's name.
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Ballot Repair Work Begins
by Matthew LeBlanc, The Hawk Eye
FORT
MADISON — While elections officials in four southeast Iowa counties
cope with a mistake that left a judge's name off 60,000 ballots, at
least one county auditor has asked for extra help to ensure that voters
are able to cast corrected ballots.
The
Lee County Board of Supervisors approved the hiring Thursday of seven
temporary elections workers who will help mail more than 4,200
supplemental ballots bearing Associate District Court Judge Gary
Noneman's name to absentee voters who requested ballots last week. The
judge's name was left off absentee and general election ballots sent to
auditors in Des Moines, Henry, Louisa and Lee counties.
The
workers, who will work for five days beginning Monday, will free up
time for regular elections workers to concentrate on hiring poll
workers and setting up polling places for the November election.
“We're
just not getting anything else done other than absentee ballots,” Lee
County Auditor Anne Pedersen said. “We're having a hard time keeping up
with (absentee ballot) requests that keep coming in.”
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Woo-hoo! That's good for our side!
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