921 primary votes tossed in mail flub (Ohio)

[deminks]

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/NEWS33/805110314

By TOM TROY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

You gotta know when to fold 'em.

That line from the old Kenny Rogers song "The Gambler" could have been a useful reminder for hundreds of Lucas County residents whose absentee ballots ended up in a cardboard box rather than in the vote count during the March 4 primary election.

The Lucas County Board of Elections rejected 921 ballots because of a mistake in which voters mailed back the ballot with the identification envelope rather than inside the identification envelope. Both ballot and identification envelope went inside a second, larger, prepaid, preaddressed envelope.

The problem? Voter confusion about whether they should fold their ballots so they would fit in the identification envelopes the board of elections sent to voters. The envelopes were a quarter of an inch smaller than the ballots.

Officials at the Lucas County Board of Elections said they are "heartsick" at the large number of uncounted ballots.

But, they said, they are prohibited by state law from counting the absentee ballots that are mailed back outside their identification envelopes despite the voters' clear intent.

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For rethugs, ya gotta know when to screw 'em, know when to toss 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

[DS1]

1. Fire the person sending out those envelopes without testing immediately.

They have no business being employed at that level. I'm sure there's a nice fry machine somewhere needing some attention.

[jaxx]

2. Maybe they'll seat them at the convention anyway....

;-)

[orleans]

3. and if people had folded the ballots to fit into the identification envelopes

they would have tossed those too, because they probably weren't suppose to fold them more than twice (if this was on 8 1/2 X 11 paper)

fire the board. they're assholes.