The Marshall County Election board has certified the results of last week’s primary. Clerk Deb VanDeMark says 18 mail-in ballots were rejected because they came in after the deadline, while 22 voters who’d requested absentee ballots turned them back in to vote in person.
“We had a lot of mail ballots,” VanDeMark notes. “We had 2,053 of them, and that’s huge for our county. We just don’t have that many normally. Four to five hundred would be what we’d be expecting in a normal election.”
VanDeMark says three provisional ballots were rejected, since none of those voters were actually registered. However, one military ballot was added to the count. The clerk says the adjustments didn’t change the outcome of any of the races.
