(AP) – The St. Francis County Election Commission has voted
to approve several steps to correct a mistake in which some residents of State
Representative District 49 were given a ballot without the race for House
representative seat listed on it.
The Times-Herald reports that the commission had received complaints from
affected voters, but commissioners believed at the time that the problem was due
to confusion over a prior redrawing of the district’s boundaries.
Commission chairman Chris Oswalt says after an investigation, it was
determined that the voters did live in the district. Oswalt says the 66 affected
voters should be given the opportunity to vote in that particular race, and he
made six recommendations to fix the issue, including notifying the affected
voters that they will be able to return to the courthouse to vote for a House
representative.
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