Postage sought for ballots
A 39-cent stamp isn't enough to cover postage for some absentee ballots in Missoula County.
About 950 of the roughly 5,000 ballots received at the elections office as of Tuesday had arrived with postage due.
"The main thing is we truly want to get these ballots back, so we have absorbed the cost," said Debbie Merseal, elections office supervisor.
That cost is roughly $245 so far, she said.
The U.S. Postal Service charges 63 cents to deliver most completed ballots, a fact the elections office is stamping on its mailings now that it knows. The first 4,000 of nearly 13,000 and counting went out without the message.
The discrepancy caught the county by surprise.
Duh. It was obvious here that the ballot was needed extra postage. People should think, but that is too much to ask I guess.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
