Greg Kultiniak, a longtime Bozek critic, said while he and his wife and two sons were eventually able to vote, the process involved making multiple copies of drivers licenses, trips to the church and ultimately no confirmation that their sons' absentee ballots were counted beyond vocal assurance from a board member. Bach said elderly people who'd been members of the church for decades were turned away from voting because they didn't have identification with them. Bozek said more than 100 absentee ballots were sent out, but he was unsure of the number that were returned in time for the vote. Burke moved the Polish apostolate, or official presence of Polish Catholics in the archdiocese, to St. Agatha in 2004. Many of those who followed the apostolate are native Poles who are now anxious to get back to St. Stanislaus after six years away from their church. St. Agatha has 123 names on its register, though the archdiocese says its more like 290. Because they left, they say, they were denied a voice in Sunday's vote. St. Agatha's pastor, Czeslaw Litak, wrote an open letter to St. Stanislaus parisioners who were allowed a vote, urging them to vote in favor of Carlson's proposal. It was signed by St. Agatha's parish and finance council members. Bozek said the vote was more than fair and that anyone who was legitimately due a vote was able to do so. He said "at least 50 percent" of the 185 who voted in favor of Carlson's proposal were St. Agatha members whose names remain on the St. Stanislaus rolls. "The people who voted against us," Bozek said, "were not our regular worshippers."
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