Darlene Bonds, assistant registrar-recorder/county clerk of the Election Preparation Bureau, said of the 13,708 vote-by-mail ballots requested in total, 159 due to be sent to Republican voters were misprinted by a vendor.

“We told them to destroy them and make the correction,” she said. “It appears a few of them didn’t get pulled and they were mailed out.”

With Verna’s long-shot at getting a bogus ballot, maybe the karma will extend to winning the Lotto or something. Just saying . . .

here’s the link to the story Nick did for today’s paper.

Both ballots were for the same political party - Verna did mention that although we sent our requests for ballots at the same time, they arrived several days apart in the mail.