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By Nicole Grigg

Story Published: Aug 31, 2010 at 5:40 PM MST

Story Updated: Sep 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM MST

BILLINGS - Some mail-in ballots have left people confused about how to vote. The ovals on some of the ballots are missing or extremely faded. The ballots are for the School District Two’s bond election.

Yellowstone County election officials said it was a printing mishap. They ask that voters put a check or an x by their choice. They said the machine will either read the mark or set it aside for hand counting.

“We as best we can, try to honor somebody's vote no matter what happens. Say they make an 'x' where they think the oval is, we'll look at that and make sure it does get counted,” said election administrator, Bret Rutherford.

Rutherford said 21,000 mail-in ballots have been returned so far. They're due back to the elections office by September 7th.

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