My Absentee Ballot

Yesterday, I got my absentee ballot in the mail. I filled it out and returned it to the auditor's office. Although it already had postage on it, I just didn't trust the post office to deliver it (it's the county's sixty cents, not mine). Besides thinking that the large number of absentee votes are going to cost the county serious cash (just $9000 for return postage. I don't know what it cost to mail them out), I thought it was odd that my envelope had been opened and then resealed with a sticker with the auditor's seal on it. Inside the envelope, I found a letter explaining why the outer envelope had been reopened (emphasis mine):

Notice to absentee voter:

Your outer envelope was sealed by mistake before all the contents were inserted. In order to make certain that your ballot was delivered to you at the earliest possible time, this envelope was reopened by election workers and taped shut before leaving the Johnson County Elections office. This letter is to assure you that the resealed envelope should not be of concern as long as this letter of explanation was found within.

Please follow the enclosed instructions completely. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Tom Slockett
Johnson Country Auditor & Commissioner of Elections

Now, how was I supposed to know that the reopening of the outer envelope should be something to worry about if the letter wasn't in the envelope since the letter told me that its absence was a bad thing? Maybe it isn't the post office I should have been worried about.