Opinion - The real cost of the ballot error

The mistake on the Colfax school levy election ballots is well known. Voters have been sent a second ballot to revote on the issue.

An error on the initial ballots has made it necessary to reprint the ballots and resend them. Plus, there are the additional expenses of return postage and hand counting the ballots once they are received. The error also causes confusion over those ballots already received, and those votes that may or may not be duplicated on the new set of ballots.

In all, it is not the smoothest of elections. The mistake also gives those who have already voted a second chance to...