(LaPorte County, IN) - The Republican candidate for LaPorte County Clerk is also calling for an investigation of 89 or more possibly missing absentee ballots. Heather Stevens says the ballots from Coolspring Township did not appear to have been counted.

She says 68 of those ballots are from democrats while 21 are from republican voters. Stevens says she plans to file a complaint with the LaPorte County Election Board and the Indiana Election Division to address the missing ballots and investigate what went wrong. Stevens is also co-director of the LaPorte County Voters Registration Office. She’s running against current LaPorte County Clerk, democrat Kathy Chroback, in November.