Ballot Error Costs Alabama Nearly $500K

Alabama’s Secretary of State John Merrill says an error that forced the state to reprint nearly three million ballots cost Alabama almost half a million dollars.

Merrill says an employee made a transcription error in a proposed amendment aimed at helping the state park system.

The original ballot left off language to prevent lawmakers from moving money generated by Alabama’s state parks to other areas of government.

The amendment was approved last month.

Merrill said the employee who made the error no longer works in the office.