Buchanan County Judge Weldon Judah today ordered the County Clerk to issue new ballots for the April 3rd school district initiative.

The original ballots contained a clerical error, showing the total amount of the proposed bond issue at $31.9 million dollars instead of the correct amount, which is $42 million.

Supporters of the bond issue filed a petition Monday seeking a court order to fix the ballot language.

County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey tells us the biggest chore for her office will be making sure absentee voters get new ballots in time for the election.

Baack-Garvey says they got busy Monday morning with an effort to prepare and print new absentee ballots for more than 500 voters who have already submitted their votes on the erroneous ballots.

She hoped to have those ballots in the mail Monday, provided the court order reaches her office in time.

The Clerk’s office will prepare new ballots for use at polling places April 3rd.