Pennsylvania county says 29K wrong ballots were mailed out

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Pennsylvania county says 29K wrong ballots were mailed out

Published 2 hours ago
Pennsylvania Politics
Associated Press

HARRISBURG - Elections officials in Pennsylvania’s second-most populous county said Wednesday that nearly 29,000 voters were mailed ballots with the wrong contests on them, and that those voters will receive corrected ballots next week.

Allegheny County officials blamed the contractor hired to handle the printing, collating and mailing of ballots, calling it a “ballot image mapping error.” They were alerted to the mistake on Friday, when voters started contacting them to complain that their ballot showed contests for other districts, they said.

They said they are starting to look for any of the wrong ballots that were mailed in, and will set them aside. Those ballots then will be reviewed by the county’s election returns board after the election to ensure that only one ballot per voter is counted, county officials said.

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[Doodley]

1. No, you don't blame it on a contractor. Take responsibility and properly oversee and check what

the contractor is doing, just like any professional organization would.

[grumpyduck]

2. Bullshit. Printing shops have people checking stuff,

especially for big clients. It's called quality control. Geez, did somebody fall asleep? Or did the election people not bother doing their jobs?

[regnaD kciN]

3. Just another basis for Trump to demand...

...the state legislature step in and appoint electors loyal to him, because the actual voting was “hopelessly flawed.”

[FakeNoose]

4. The contractor is at fault

This is not the fault of the County Election Board, nor is it the US Postal Service's fault. The contractor is the printing company that provided matched mailing services and they are responsible for doing it right. The customer - in this case it's the county election board - provided a datafile with all of the name/address data and their responsibility is to check the data before it is given out.

Matched mailings are a standard program and the company that won the contract was responsible to see that it was done correctly. They have the liability here, the contractor should cover all the costs associated with replacing the incorrect ballots with correct ones.

Whether there was an underlying political motive in play would be a separate issue.

[femmocrat]

5. Absentee ballots are a mess in western PA.

Still waiting for ours!