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Voters Sent Info With Wrong Election Date

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published October 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM EDT

The Ottawa County Board of Elections says 22-hundred voters were mailed official postcards listing the presidential election date as November 8th instead of the correct date of November 6th.The board says it is working to remedy the error. Ohio Democrats criticized the mistake. 52 percent of the County's voters supported candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
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Election Coverage Ottawa County Board of Elections
Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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