Torrance County Clerk apologizes for return address mishap on estimated 140 ballots

The lead elections official in Torrance County is apologizing and assuring voters that their ballots will be counted after workers mistakenly mailed about 140 absentee ballots without return address labels.

Republican Torrance County Clerk Linda Jaramillo said the clerks’ office had received more than 100 of those now-completed ballots back as of Friday.

“This was an isolated incident,” said Jaramillo in an interview with Source NM. “It has never happened to my board before, and I apologize.”

Elections workers on the county’s absentee board failed to add the return labels to a batch of ballots that they were sending out in early October, Jaramillo said. The 140 affected voters only for about 1% of the county’s more than 10,000 voters.



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