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https://www.nwitimes.com/news/laporte-final...91feb50a25.html

The county election board reported a total of 4,717 absentee ballots were cast as compared to only 585 during the 2016 presidential election year.

A statement released by the election board said, "In order to have accurate results, the tabulation process is going to take more time than in past years. The LaPorte County Election Board will update with results as appropriate."

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https://www.nwitimes.com/news/laporte-elect...ab2a639075.html

A LaPorte County election official and candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court is calling for an investigation into possibly uncounted absentee ballots from Tuesday's primary election.

Heather Stevens, the co-director of the LaPorte County Board of Voter Registration and Republican candidate for circuit court clerk, said in a news release on Sunday that 89 absentee ballots from Coolspring 3 precinct appear not to be included in the county's final unofficial vote count.

The release said an Indiana Absentee Ballot Report run by Stevens on June 1 showed 68 Democrat and 21 Republican absentee ballots returned and scanned for the precinct.

But, the release added, publicly available precinct-by-precinct results do not reflect the absentee votes from the precinct.

"I know that multiple candidates from both political parties have complaints about how the election has been run, and I believe that most of those complaints are valid." Stevens said in the release. "The voters and candidates of this county deserve better. This is simply unacceptable."

Stevens said she plans to file a complaint with the LaPorte County Election Board and the Indiana Election Division about the vote counting discrepancy.