Mary Baack-Garvey
Buchanan County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey traveled to Atchison Monday to pick up another batch of 26,000 election ballots for the November election.
The new, court-ordered, language for Amendment Six required every county in the state to replace ballots that were already printed with the old language. That will cost nearlyy five thousand dollars in Buchanan County.
Despite a statute saying the state will pick up the tab, Baack-Garvey says she’ll believe it when she sees it.
“There is a statute that does clearly state that if there is a statewide reprint, that the state will cover the cost of that,” Baack-Garvey said, “but, I don’t believe that until I see it.”
“Just like, we had final certification day for the November election. That means no other changes to the ballot. Well, look what happened there. That didn’t matter. The ballot still got changed anyway. So, until I hear directly from the Secretary of State that they’re going to be cutting me a check, I’m going to assume that we’re paying for it.”
As it turns out, Baack-Garvey and other election officials across Missouri meet with the Secretary of State this week in Jefferson City. Baack-Garvey says she expects the Secretary to be bombarded by questions about it. She expects to have a definitive answer in about a week.
