Antelope County Clerk hires ballot processors

A special mail-in election, underway in Antelope County, will close next Tuesday, Oct. 15.

County Clerk Lisa Payne has hired a receiving/counting board to help process ballots that day.

County voters in two of the county's five commissioner districts received ballots through the United States Postal Service last week. The ballots ask voters if elected officials, Allan Bentley and Tom Borer, should be removed from their positions as county commissioners.

"When a ballot is returned, it is logged into the Voter Registration System and the signature on the ballot envelope is verified. The ballot/e...