A local elections activist has filed another court action against the county, saying that someone tampered with absentee ballots from last May’s school mill levy election. Last week, NBC Montana told you how Patty Lovaas organized a team to look over ballot envelopes from last May’s school mill levy election. She says the records were unsealed, and that someone tampered with them — adding her claims to a civil lawsuit she already filed against the county. “This was intentional, and they know the law,” Lovaas said. “It doesn’t matter what spin they put on it. They know the law. There are numerous irregularities in that election — numerous. And that prompted me to do the review in the first place.”
County officials say those envelopes weren’t required to be sealed, and the ballots themselves aren’t available to the public. “All her allegations are unfounded,” Deputy County Attorney Dori Brownlow said. “The envelopes are stored in the way the elections office needs to store them. There’s no issue with them not being sealed, and frankly, if they were required to be sealed, then she would not have had access to them.”
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