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11/29/2010

Ballot, ballot, who's got the ballot?

I'll be making calls tomorrow to try to sort out how a ballot from District 5-4 wound up in a bag from District 5-3, and whatever I find should appear in Wednesday's paper along with the latest developments in what is threatening to turn into a recount saga.

Meanwhile, the best theory I can come up with is that an absentee ballot got sent to the wrong place.

This was not the first time a city ballot wound up in the wrong place. During the 2008 recount between Courcelle and David Allaire, one of the 5-4 bags had a stray ballot from another district. Since the recount that year only covered Courcelle's district, nobody made an issue of the other ballot.

Posted at 07:54 PM in Current Affairs, Vermont Legislature | Permalink