Right here we go.
Voters in Montgomery County, Maryland acquired pattern ballots with incorrect names.
Based on WTOP, the Montgomery County’s Board of Elections despatched 132,217 ballots to voters within the eighth Congressional District and plenty of of them have been stunned to see they have been incorrectly labeled.
An official with the Montgomery BOE stated 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 title.
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, stated 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 acquired into the weeds, we noticed that it was the spreadsheet used to print the title and addresses on the pattern poll,” Zelaya stated.
He stated 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 stated the spreadsheet was corrected and substitute pattern ballots shall 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 okay. It’s present,” Zelaya stated.
When requested if the spreadsheet error, if unaddressed, would result in a printing error for the official ballots later this 12 months, Zelaya stated the reply isn’t any.
“These are two separate methods,” he stated.
Some voters in Montgomery County’s eighth Congressional District acquired a shock when their pattern ballots arrived within the mail just lately. Above their deal with was another person’s title. https://t.co/Qtc3XuJw1Z
— WTOP (@WTOP) September 20, 2024
