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son at their county courthouses or by mail.
• Absentee voting is open through the June 2 deadline, but Gant warns people to be wary of the time it takes to request, receive and mail ballots. They have to be received by 5 p.m. the day before Election Day.
• Residents must be registered to vote to request an absentee ballot. Other voters must register 15 days before Election Day. Only registered Republicans can vote in the party's primary. Independents and Democrats can vote on the Democratic ticket.
• Depending on the region, some ballots will include city, school board and county races. City and school races are non-partisan.
• The state will track and post the total number of absentee votes beginning Monday.
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Family waits for apology in 1971 disappearance
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A man whose family farm was searched as part of the investigation into the 1971 disappearance of two girls said the state should apologize for the physical and emotional devastation law enforcement agents left behind.
• Kerwyn Lykken said false leads in the case that turned out to be a car accident prompted searches in 2004 that left lasting scars on his elderly mother and other family members.
• He pulled Attorney General Marty Jackley aside after an Elk Point news conference this week in which Jackley confirmed that Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson were killed when their Studebaker drove off a gravel road and landed in a creek.
• "I said this family has been put through the ringer and said we still deserve an apology," Lykken said Thursday afternoon, of what he told Jackley.
• Jackley said Friday that it would be inappropriate to apologize because several state and federal judges have reviewed the searches and concluded they were justified, based on evidence that includes a sealed search warrant with details that have not been made public. The searches were a legitimate part of the search for two missing girls, he said.
• "Certainly, it was important for me to acknowledge and respect that it was unfortunate that that search had to happen. But it had to happen," Jackley said. "Hopefully there can be closure for three families."
• Investigators were led to the farm largely because of Lykken's brother, David Lykken, who was sentenced in 1991 to 225 years in prison for breaking into a for (Continued on page 19)
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