The affected voters have been advised to throw out their faulty ballots, which will soon be replaced.
The faulty ballots were first reported on Tuesday morning, a day after the county clerk's office announced it had begun to send mail-in ballots to registered voters.
Around 2,100 ballots sent to voters in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles County did not include the presidential race, the county clerk's office told the paper. Some voters told thethat, in addition to the missing federal race, their faulty ballots also featured duplicate prints of proposed state legislation.
"While this has impacted a very small number of Los Angeles County voters ... we nevertheless apologize to those affected by the mistake," county clerk spokesperson Michael Sanchez told theA voter places their ballot in a mail-in ballot drop-off box outside of a library ahead of Election Day on October 5, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
According to a recent voter registration report from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla's office, more than 21.2 million residents were registered to vote in the state by early September. More than 5.6 million of those reside in Los Angeles County, the report said.
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