Dane County to reprint bad primary ballots
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dane County officials will have to reprint 75,500 ballots for the Sept. 9 primary election after municipal clerks received copies riddled with errors.
The mistakes mean absentee voters will have to wait until at least Friday to get ballots. Ballots were supposed to be available today.
County officials caught the mistakes Monday, prompting Dane County Clerk Robert Ohlsen to send an e-mail to municipal clerks warning them that nearly every ballot had been printed incorrectly.
Almost all the county’s state Assembly districts were numbered incorrectly on the backs of the ballots, Ohlsen said. Dennis E. Hruby, an independent candidate in the 47th Assembly District, was left off the ballot, and some ballots didn’t include write-in blanks for state Senate races for the Wisconsin Green and Libertarian parties.
The errors all are on the back of the ballots, suggesting the printer didn’t change out its template when it came time to print those sections, Ohlsen said.
“What we sent them was correct,” he said.
A message left at the printer, Madison-based Wisconsin Graphic Forms, wasn’t immediately returned.
Aug 13, 2008 at 6:45 p.m.
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Whatever happened to running a proof and verifying it before you run 75,500 copies?
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