Election officials: Don't disinfect or microwave your mail-in ballot
Some voters, apparently worried about contracting COVID-19 from surfaces, are ruining their mail-in paper ballots by disinfecting them. Voters have brought in more than 100 damaged ballots to the registrar's office, KCRA-TV reporter Stephanie Lin reports from Sacramento County in California -- and at least one person tried to kill potential germs by putting a ballot in a microwave oven.
"Don't do this if you want your vote to count," Lin tweeted alongside a photo of a smeared ballot stamped SPOILED. Lin also shared a photo of a ballot that appeared to show a burn mark.
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Ballots sent to voters prior to Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3 were processed by machine weeks ago and are safe to handle, Lin reported.
The damaged ballots shown were not mailed in, but brought in by voters who were given new ones, said Courtney Kanelos of the Sacramento County registrar of voters. Those voters received new ballots and voted.
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