Ballots mailed out this week

Editor’s note: This clarifies that the candidate forum is being held Wednesday.

With ballots being mailed out to absentee voters the end of this week, Hill County Clerk and Recorder Susan Armstrong said people are receiving mailers urging them to register as absentee when they already are registered.

Armstrong said the emails, from a group called The New American Jobs Fund, is telling people they are registered to vote but have not yet applied to vote absentee. That is confusing people who already are registered absentee, she said. The mailers are not coming from election administrators or the...