Lancaster County, PA primary: 1/2 of mail-in ballots now need hand counting due to vendor error

[liberalguilt57]

Today is PA's primary for judges, local officials, school boards etc. New vendor for ballots has screwed up 3 times this primary season. I can just hear the GOP ready to crow about mail-in ballots being the devil...

"An error by the (Lancaster) county's mail-in ballot vendor now means more than half of all mail-in ballots will have to be hand-counted, causing significant delay in final results.
"Michigan Elections Resources printed multi-sheet ballots in the wrong order, affecting approximately 14,000 ballots, a press release from the Lancaster County Board of Elections said. Those ballots are now unable to be scanned by the county's ballot scanners and will have to be hand counted....
"This is now the third error from Michigan Election Resources in the municipal primary election, impacting more than 14,000 ballots. Earlier this month, approximately 2,700 voters were alerted that some received incorrect voting instructions that prompted them that they did not need to pay postage. Additionally, approximately 100 voters in (2 boroughs) received incorrect return envelopes intended for another voter, leading voters to need to cancel their ballots and receive new ones...."
Official says "the county will be seeking a new vendor for the November General Election, and to hold Michigan Elections Resources accountable for the errors...."

[link:https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/more-than-half-of-mail-in-ballots-now-need-hand-counting-due-to-vendors-latest/article_edbf4b44-b804-11eb-83fa-af03599a9d01.html|