The Crookston Public School Absentee Ballot Board met for the final time on Friday afternoon to count and verify more absentee ballots that had come in for the upcoming referendum.
The board received 91 ballots last week and 94 this week, for a total of 185 Absentee ballots collected. However, despite this being the last time the board will meet before the election on February 14, the school district is still collecting ballots for the referendum. “We will be collecting ballots postmarked on February 13,” Election Judge Kathy Altringer explained. “We can still open them on the 14th once they go get the mail, but they must be postmarked for the 13th.” Absentee ballots are still available for people if they cannot come and vote on February 14 and can be received at the Crookston High School District Office or mailed to them from the school.
On February 14, the board will take the ballots they collected over the previous few weeks, along with any others that come in on February 13, to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. “When we get the Absentee Ballots in, we verify that people’s names and signatures match up with our records,” Election Judge Beth Benoit explained. “Then we store the ballots, sealed in their envelopes, until the actual election day, where they’ll be brought into St. Paul’s where we’ll be run them through the machine like everyone else’s.”
If you wish to have your vote counted but are unable to come to the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for the election on Tuesday, February 14, you can still get and drop a ballot of your vote to Executive Assistant to the Superintendent Marilyn Wahouske on Monday, February 13, at the Crookston High School District Office between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Stay tuned to KROX and kroxam.com for more updates and the referendum election results. You can learn more about the upcoming referendum and your property tax credit at: https://www.crookston.k12.mn.us/district-proposedreferendum.
