The D.C. Republican Committee sent around word late yesterday that a registered Republican living in Ward 2 was mailed an absentee ballot that is missing candidates and includes a candidate from another Ward.

Take a close look at the ballot at right. This voter lives in single-member district 2F03, but the ballot includes the Ward 6 school board seat instead of the Ward 2 spot, and is also missing the Ward 2 D.C. Council member race.

WTOP’s Mark Segraves was all over the story yesterday (City Desk picked it up, too), nabbing a quote from Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans describing this ballot as “illegal.”

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics said it has only received this one complaint from a voter who was sent an incorrect ballot, but with only a little over a week until an election expected to see record voter turnout, the fact that a ballot with these kinds of errors was mailed out is seriously troubling.