Nearly 50,000 voters in Ohio mailed wrong ballots

[Towlie]

Nearly 50,000 voters in Ohio mailed wrong ballots

Almost 50,000 voters in Ohio received faulty ballots in the mail due to a technical error, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

Local officials in Franklin County, home to the state’s capital Columbus, said the error happened after a setting was changed on a machine which sorts absentee ballots into envelopes, Politico reported. They have promised corrected ballots will be sent out within 72 hours.

Despite isolating the problem to a single issue, the snafus were varied. Some ballots had incorrect congressional races, while others were mailed to people in the wrong precinct.

Ohio is one of around a dozen potential swing states in the 2020 election between President Trump and Joe Biden, making ballot errors there particularly notable.

The news continues to fuel questions about the integrity of absentee ballots...

No, right-wing New York Post, it fuels questions about the integrity of the Franklin County Board of Elections.

[elleng]

1. Ohio's just FULL 'technical errors,' ain't it?

[mobeau69]

2. Yep, and behind the times in so many ways they make Indiana

look like a progressive state!

[elleng]

3. OYE!

AND then there's Misery's Governor!

Missouri governor says he'll pardon St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters after indictment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/520107-missouri-governor-again-says-hell-pardon-st-louis-couple-who-pointed

[LisaL]

4. I don't think it's fair to accuse board of Elections.

It's bipartisan, and it seems like they worked hart to send the ballots quickly. I am not sure what exactly went in there. They claim it was an inadvertent error.
Could have been even worse. Our of 237,000 ballots send, 50,000 were incorrect. But it could have been all 237,000. Somebody turned off a laser scanner thingy that was supposed to make sure the ballots went into correct envelopes.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Agreed.

I have not worked with the Franklin Board of Elections, but I have worked closely with two other boards of elections: One in a Republican county and one in a Democratic county. Both were professional, dedicated, bipartisan, and dedicated to running a fair election.

[LisaL]

6. I am one of those people in Franklin county.

And I didn't know if my ballot was correct or not because I got it and sealed it right away. So I couldn't check.
But I am not on the list of people with wrong ballots which presumably means my ballot is correct.