On October 8, a New Mexico state court put two candidates for City Council of Las Cruces on the ballot, even though the election is only four weeks from that date. The election is November 5. See this story. The court case was over whether the two candidates really had at least 25 valid signatures.

The absentee ballots had already been printed without the names of the two candidates, but the city clerk has printed up stickers with their names and will add them to the absentee ballots. As a result, the absentee ballots will need to be hand-counted.