This reminded me of the wedding limo crash in NY that killed 20 people a few years ago
Started looking, found this:
One victim, Adam Jackson, had been a Republican deputy commissioner of elections for Montgomery County. His death had distracted his coworkers so much that the absentee ballots they sent out for the November elections accidentally omitted a line for Republican congressional candidate Joe Vitollo. When the mistake was discovered, new ballots were mailed to 89 voters in the town of Amsterdam who had received the incorrect ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoharie_limousine_crash
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Hard-hit-by-limo-tragedy-Montgomery-County-BOE-13317784.php