Lancaster County runs into mail-in ballot issues, officials issue corrections ahead of election season

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The Lancaster County website shows big red letters letting voters know that mail-in ballots that went out came with the wrong instructions.

shows big red letters letting voters know that mail-in ballots that went out came with the wrong instructions. The instructions state that voters should put their ballot into the white secrecy envelope when it should go into the yellow envelope. , this mistake happened in an effort to minimize those mistakes. County officials made a few changes to the materials that accompany the ballots for the fall municipal election.

This isn’t the first time an error has occurred in Lancaster County’s election process. In the primary election in April, nearly 19,000 ballots went out to voters that had anon them. Instead of directing voters to choose two candidates in the race, the ballots incorrectly told them to only vote for one.

In May 2022, about 16,000 mail-in ballots failed to scan because of an incorrect code. Those ballots also had to beIn May 2021, about 12,300 ballots were printed out of order, preventing scanners from reading them. The ballots had to be counted by hand.Error found on Lancaster County mail-in ballots ahead of May 16 primary; replacement ballots will be sent to nearly 19,000 voters

 

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