Maryland election officials are scrambling to resend thousands of mail-in ballots after sending thousands to the wrong political party.
The State Board of Elections said Friday that ballots mailed before May 14 may have been affected by the printing mix-up, forcing officials to send replacement ballots to all voters who had already requested mail-in voting.
More than 500,000 Maryland voters have requested mail-in ballots for the June 23 primary.
Officials claim only a small number of voters may have actually received the wrong ballots, but acknowledged the scope of the uncertainty required a mass reissue.
“It is possible only a small number of voters received the wrong ballot, and most voters received the correct ballot,” the board said in astatement.
Despite that, election administrators insisted every voter who already received a mail ballot would be sent a corrected replacement.
State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis defended the move and described mail-in voting as an “integral facet of the electoral process.”
”With over 500,000 voters requesting mail-in ballots, we want to eliminate any doubt in its integrity or accuracy,” he said.
”That is why I have arranged the sending of replacement ballots,” he said.
The error was blamed on election vendor Taylor Print and Visual Impressions Inc., which said it had implemented “additional quality control and verification measures” to prevent a repeat.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
