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By Mary Elizabeth Davis Lamesa Press-Reporter It’s called ballot harvesting. It’s defined as an unauthorized person having anything to do with someone else’s application for a ballot by mail or the ballot itself. It’s illegal in some states, including Texas, while legal in other states. Local attorney Carter Schildknecht, a retired district judge, went before Lamesa Independent School District (LISD) board members last Thursday with her suspicions that such practices may have happened in the May 1 school board election. “The wrong doing was on the part of the candidates; not on the way the election was run,” Schildknecht said after the school board ...

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