Sequoia screws up printing of PAPER absentee ballots

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SANTA CLARA COUNTY

Delivery of absentee ballots delayed by printing woes; deadline expected to be met

Printing problems have delayed delivery of absentee ballots by a week in Santa Clara County, but the registrar of voters will be mailing them out over the next few days, well before the Nov. 1 deadline. The election is Nov. 8.

The registrar's office can begin mailing the ballots 29 days before the election, and hoped to have sent them out last week, said Assistant Registrar Elaine Larson. But when the ballots arrived from the printer, there were problems with the bar coding that ensures only one ballot goes into each envelope, and with the scoring that ensures folds don't interfere with votes.

The contracted printer, Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems, which also manufactures the touch-screen voting machines used by the county, had to send another batch, Larson said.


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