Reply #19: NM: Missing ballots from Omaha company finally turn up

[EFerrari]

Missing ballots from Omaha company finally turn up — 300 miles away
By KEVIN O'HANLON Associated Press Writer

The last of the missing ballots supplied by an Omaha, Neb.-based election company have been accounted for — some 300 miles from where they were supposed to be.

Election Systems and Software was criticized after several counties in Montana and Wyoming received absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 election after the deadline for starting to mail them to voters had passed.

On Wednesday, the last of the ballots arrived — no thanks to ES&S.

JoAnn Johnson, who runs elections in Chouteau County, said she got her ballots last week. But she then discovered that 650 precinct ballots, which had been due from ES&S on Sept. 22, had been mistakenly sent to Carbon County, some 300 miles away.

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