ELBA, Minn. – Two first-term Republican state legislators, Pam Altendorf of Red Wing and Steve Jacob of Elba, protested to the state head of elections that their names were listed wrong on some Wabasha County ballots. The error listed the House District 20-A race between Altendorf and her Democratic challenger, Heather Arndt, when it should have listed the House District 20-B race between Jacob and Democrat Michael Hutchinson. The errant ballots apparently were limited to voters in Zumbro Falls, population 150, in the extreme western part of the county. In a joint statement Altendorf and Jacob called the errors “unacceptable” and said that, if uncorrected, Zumbro Falls voters would be disenfranchised. Because Zumbro Falls has no precinct place for voting, everyone is mailed an absentee ballot to submit by mail or make a 26-mile trip miles to the county seat in Wabasha.

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Altendorf.

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Jacob.

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Errant ballot. These were mailed out out last week to citizens who had registered a preference for absentee voting.