Osage County Clerk calls for new Linn mayoral election after claiming 40 people received wrong ballot
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Osage County Clerk filed a lawsuit in the county’s court on Tuesday to ask for a new election for Linn mayor.
Clerk Brooke Dudenhoeffer filed the petition in Osage County after she claims there were 40 people who received the wrong ballot in the April 7 Election. The lawsuit alleges those 40 voters received a ballot that did not include the mayoral race, but they should have received one with that race included.
The lawsuit alleges that “the property for these forty (40) voters had previously been annexed to the geographic territory of the City of Linn; however, the voter addresses had not been updated in the Missouri Centralized Voter Registration System to be included within the geographic territory of the City of Linn. As a result, these voters received a ballot style that did not, but should have, had the mayoral race included on the ballot style.”
Michael Troesser received 127 votes in the mayoral election and Dustin Flamm had 101. The difference in the number of voters could have resulted in a different outcome of the election.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for 9 a.m. May 7 at the Osage County Courthouse.
ABC 17 News has reached out to the Osage County Clerk.