A number of voters in New York City on Monday received absentee ballots with return envelopes mislabeled with a different voter’s name and address, adding to the chaos surrounding the influx of mail-in voting this election season.
Amazing, I received my absentee ballot today and @BOENYC has given me someone else’s privacy envelope with their barcode and everything. This election is gonna be a shit show. pic.twitter.com/VNj9yKtaNKMy mail-in ballot also has someone else's return envelope. This is gonna be a real huge problem, huh. https://t.co/ygx9XgeEE7 pic.twitter.com/JsGxb6yzP5The city’s Board of Elections attributed the incorrect envelopes to “an outside vendor error.
Initially, voters were instructed to contact the Board of Elections to receive a correct envelope. But by Tuesday afternoon, the board said all voters “potentially affected” will receive a new ballot packet “to make certain absolutely no disenfranchisement occurs,” Mike Ryan, the board’s executive director, said at a public board meeting.
All of the incorrect envelopes were distributed in one batch in Brooklyn, Ryan said, but election officials do not have exact data on who received the mislabeled envelopes.Across the country, the surge in mail-in voting and a flurry of changing voting procedures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused headaches for many voters and election officials.
For New York City voters, this is the second ballot printing error this week. Earlier Monday, election officials said the absentee ballots have been mislabeled “absentee military ballot.” The ballots should have read “absentee/military ballot.”Note: absentee ballots say “Official Absentee Military Ballot” in the top corner. This is the correct ballot, even if you are not serving in the military. pic.twitter.com/IbtAcdJqL5We want to know what you’re hearing on the ground from the candidates.
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