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[Cheyenne]

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.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20041008/ap_on_el_pr/brf_ballot_error&printer=1


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[Cheyenne]

Here is what yahoo left out


"The key is just to make sure everybody does get the changed ballot," Durdaller said.

If, for instance, an absentee ballot was returned with a vote for candidates John Kerry and John Edwards and no new ballot is received, that ballot will be used.

"Or if they under-voted and just didn't vote for any presidential ticket and just voted statewide, the ballot would still count," she said.

The cost to reprint the ballots will fall to Carter County, although Gibbs said she doubted the cost would be substantial. Ballots that will be used on the Nov. 2 election date have not been printed yet.

"It probably won't be very much," she said. "We don't really have a lot of absentee voters."

Less than 500 of the ballots without the Bush/Cheney ticket included were sent out. Gibbs said the county usually receives about 300 absentee ballots for each election, although the August primary saw a record number due to the local sheriff's race and the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Several voters had noticed their options were limited on the absentee ballots. Gibbs said the county clerk's office began work to correct the situation as soon as it was discovered.

"Somewhere along the line, we noticed it," she said.
http://www.darnews.com/articles/2004/10/06/news/news2.txt

[Son of a VET]

[Nutso]

By the time these ballots get printed and to our soldiers overseas they will not have enough time to get them back. Mail has been taking 1 1/2 - 2 weeks each way to my son, and they just found a way to use a 'little mistake' help in the great takeover of the country by the socialist party (democrats).
Do you really beleive nobody noticed Bush-Cheney weren't on the ballots??
They aren't exactly running for dog catcher.