FRANK KAPLAN

Frank Kaplan has been the point person at Frederic for printing ballots for Pueblo’s runoff election. Kaplan told the Chieftain Wednesday afternoon that the company has worked on hundreds of elections in Colorado and that duplicate ballots are not "unusual" but are still relatively rare.

Kaplan emphasized that voting systems are secure and that any duplicate ballots returned to local governments are “always 100% caught at the other end.”

Frederic Printing also received two transmissions of voter information from the city, Kaplan said, but the company’s role is to print and mail out the ballots.

“We receive the list and that's what we print,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan told the Chieftain he did not recall having a conversation with Stoller about potential duplicates but said they had also received a “void list” from the city with approximately 100-200 ballots that needed to be pulled before everything was put in the mail.

“The ballot packet has already been put together and everything’s ready for the post office — then a team goes through and literally pulls the ballots that are on that void list,” Kaplan explained.

Stoller also told the Chieftain on Tuesday that it is not the printer’s obligation to provide quality control for duplicate ballots.