Pueblo County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Maestas thinks he got mugged Saturday at the House District 47 Democratic Assembly in Canon City, The Pueblo Chieftain reports.

Maestas needed 14 delegate votes — 30 percent of the total — to qualify for the Aug. 10 primary election against fellow Democrat Carole Partin, president of the Pueblo Education Association. Maestas received 14 votes, only to have assembly officials disqualify the vote of one elderly Maestas supporter for failing to sign his name on the ballot before handing it over to be counted.