Patrick O’Leary shows one of the multiple ballots recently delivered in the mail to his Durango apartment.
Durango, CO – Patrick O’Leary expected to vote in the Nov. 4 election. But when six ballots arrived at his East Fifth Avenue apartment in the past week, the Durango resident was puzzled.
There were two ballots each for him, son Patrick O’Leary II and grandson Austin O’Leary. Patrick O’Leary hadn’t opened the first envelope when the second round arrived.
“I assumed that they were duplicate ballots for the November election,” O’Leary said. “I was leery and didn’t want to tamper with them, so I didn’t open them.”
O’Leary received both general-election and primary-election ballots for himself, his son and his grandson. Questions remain why the primary ballots were delivered months after the June primary election.