atw: Costly Typo (It's Friday)

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. - Ottawa County will pay about
$40,000 to correct an embarrassing typo on its
Nov. 7 election ballot: The "L" was left out of
"public."

A total of 170,000 ballots will have to be reprinted.

The mistake appeared in the text of a proposed
amendment to the state constitution that would
ban some types of affirmative action.

The word "public" was misspelled one of the six
times it appears, county Clerk Daniel C. Krueger
said Tuesday. Five or six people in his office
had proofread the ballot, but it was an election
clerk who found the mistake early last week.

"It's just one of those words," Krueger said.
"Even after we told people it was in there,
they still read over it."
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