Clerk: Absentee ballots sought by ineligible voters

COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes said Friday his office has received nearly 500 absentee ballot requests from people who live outside voting areas eligible for election.

The office has received around 1,500 requests for absentee ballots by earlier this week.

However, 469 of those requests came from voters whose residence address placed them outside a city and in a fire district which doesn't have a contested race.

That combination makes those voters ineligible to vote on Nov. 8, as only the cities and Mica Kidd Island Fire District will have contested races on that date.

Hayes said the Elections Department would begin mailing postcards Tuesday to the ineligible voters who have requested an absentee ballot notifying them they are not eligible to vote this election.

Voters who aren't sure whether they're eligible can check http://www.kcgov.us/elections/search/.