School District 6 ballots delayed in some areas

Ballots in the School District 6 board election were delayed to some residents.

“We found out that 1,074 ballots were not mailed until Friday, April 22. The zip codes affected were 59936, 59937, 59913, and 59919,” Superintendent Dave Wick noted in a letter to voters posted on the school’s website.

Those zip codes include West Glacier, Coram, Hungry Horse and Whitefish.

Wick said Thursday that the printer made an error when it didn’t mail out a box of ballots for those zip codes.

The delayed ballots arrived in Columbia Falls from Missoula on April 25.

Since it may be too late to mail ballots and still get them to the school district offices to count them by the 8 p.m. deadline on May 3, the district set up drop boxes monitored by election judges at Canyon Elementary and at the district administration offices in Columbia Falls.

The Canyon offices have been open from noon to 4 p.m. each day and will be open Monday as well.

The Columbia Falls administration office is also is accepting ballots every weekday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and will accept ballots from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. on election day May 3. It can also provide a replacement ballot with proper identification if a registered voter did not receive their ballot.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

“We are doing everything possible to ensure your voice is heard,” Wick noted in a letter to voters.

The election features five candidates for two seats. There is no mill levy election this year.