City Elections Had 24 Wrong Ballots

Item: Clerk: 24 ballots inadmissible: Nineteen were county residents voting in Coeur d’Alene election /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: The Kootenai County Clerk’s Office said 24 inadmissible ballots were cast in the Nov. 8 elections. Kootenai County commissioners adopted the canvass results for all municipal elections, from Athol to Worley, on Nov. 17. Nineteen of those inadmissible ballots were cast by county residents who voted in the Coeur d’Alene’s election, Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes said. Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Mike Kennedy, meanwhile, points to those errors as vindication for former County Clerk Dan English, who was side-by-side with Kennedy during the heavily litigated 2009 general election challenge. Hayes, though, said he can’t compare anything to 2009. He was elected in 2010, after the suit was filed.

Question: County Clerk Cliff Hayes wants Councilman Mike Kennedy to apologize for a comment he made at HucksOnline that Hayes should have presented canvass results to the City Council in person. Should he?