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Pennsylvania 2022 Primary Updates: Fetterman and Mastriano Declared Winners

(Pan error company that prints ballots for several counties in Pennsylvania made thousands of mail-in ballots the unreadable Tuesday when voters decided the hotly contested primaries for Governor and US Senate in one of the most important battlefield states in the country.

Officials in Lancaster County, the sixth most populous state, said problem at least 21,000 mailed ballots participated, only a third of that scanned correctly. glitch will be force electoral workers remake ballots which cannot be read machine, a time-consuming process that is expected to take several days. Officials in the GOP-controlled district promised that all ballots will count in the end.

“Citizens deserve accurate results from elections and they deserve them on Election Night, Not Days Later” — Josh Parsons, Republican and Vice Chairman of the country board of commissioners, said news conference. “But because of we won’t have it final elections results from this mail ballots for probably a few days, so it’s very, very frustrating us.”

Lancaster Council of Elections, of of which Parsons is a member, renewed his criticism of state voting law of 2019 that expandedin voting but prevented mail-in counties from opening ballots check before election day for errors.

board said the law that was passed by the legislature with bipartisan support, also forcing counties use print suppliers ballots not to do them in house.

“Act 77 is invalid for us how counties proceed work in elections and not have problems like it,” said Ray D’Agostino, chairman of Lancaster board.

supplier error left county officials with exercise of have to manually mark thousands of fresh ballots process which is expected start Wednesday morning. Behind ballots that won’t scan, district poll workers will recreate the voters’ choice on empty ballots and then scan them.

Lancaster County should have use a similar process during the primaries last year as of seal error by another supplier.

Christa Miller, Chief Clerk of voter registration, said the election commission worker would read out the choice of each voter, second worker will record them on blank ballot and observer I will do sure options are marked correctly.

County officials said the contractor, an NPC from Claysburg, Pennsylvania, sent the county test ballots with correct identification code, but used wrong the code on those sent to voters.

The NPC that replaced the trader who was fired after last yearsx error did not immediately respond to the search message comment. D’Agostino said the NPC took “full duty.”

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