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24 Ineligible Voters Cast City Ballots

The following is part of a report by the County Clerk’ Cliff Hayes’ office to the city of Coeur d’Alene re: 24 county residents inadvertently voting in city elections in the cities of Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, and Rathdrum  Nov. 8. (Precincts 50, 60, & 61 are in Coeur d’Alene). Additionally, 21 eligible voters cast ballots in the wrong precincts.) HucksOnline obtained this information through a public documents request. You can read the full report here :

Errors

Due to poll worker errors in the following 4 precincts, 24 County residents erroneously cast ballots for a city (Coeur d’Alene, Hayden or Rathdrum) races:

Precinct                               # Erroneous Ballots

9                                              1

17                                             3

50                                             1

60/61                                     19

Poll workers did not call the Elections office as they had been instructed to do in training if a voter who was not in the poll book wanted a ballot.  Poll workers at Precinct 60/61 will be interviewed to gather more information about the problem, and additional poll worker training emphasis will be placed on preventing this error in the future.

Question: What will Mary Souza say?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog