Right here we go.
Voters in Montgomery County, Maryland acquired pattern ballots with incorrect names.
In accordance with WTOP, the Montgomery County’s Board of Elections despatched 132,217 ballots to voters within the eighth Congressional District and lots of of them had been stunned to see they had been incorrectly labeled.
An official with the Montgomery BOE mentioned a difficulty with the spreadsheet used to print the names and addresses led to the errors.
It’s unclear what number of voters acquired ballots with the fallacious identify.
Each voter within the district was emailed a digital model of their pattern poll.
How handy!
Excerpt from WTOP:
Gilberto Zelaya, with the county’s BOE, mentioned these calls tipped them off to a difficulty with pattern poll and voter info packet despatched to voters whose final names begin with “A” or “B.”
“Then, as we regarded and bought into the weeds, we noticed that it was the spreadsheet used to print the identify and addresses on the pattern poll,” Zelaya mentioned.
He mentioned the error within the spreadsheet that was utilized by the corporate which prints the ballots led to a “restricted quantity” of ballots arriving with the fallacious names on them. Zelaya mentioned the spreadsheet was corrected and alternative pattern ballots will probably be despatched out quickly.
“We’re going to reprint these. We’re going to ship them out. However all the knowledge on what the voter acquired is ok. It’s present,” Zelaya mentioned.
When requested if the spreadsheet error, if unaddressed, would result in a printing error for the official ballots later this yr, Zelaya mentioned the reply is not any.
“These are two separate programs,” he mentioned.
Some voters in Montgomery County’s eighth Congressional District bought a shock when their pattern ballots arrived within the mail just lately. Above their deal with was another person’s identify. https://t.co/Qtc3XuJw1Z
— WTOP (@WTOP) September 20, 2024