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Printing mistake, old equipment force lengthy hand count of Montrose ballots
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Jun 29, 2018 03:56pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 28, 2018 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Antiquated election equipment, glitches and an expensive printing mistake added up to Montrose County's primary election night turning into election week.
Teams of judges continued to tally votes by hand Wednesday after a fiasco with ballot printing made it impossible to complete the primary election by machine Tuesday night.
The labor-intensive process began after Montrose County Clerk Tressa Guynes announced that the company hired for the print job sent the wrong ballot, one her office asked the company to delete because it wasn't working on their 12-year-old election system. Instead, the old ballot was printed, used by voters, and couldn't be counted by their machine programmed to read the new ballot, forcing a hand count of more than 10,600 ballots.
Deputy County Clerk Kim Wright estimated she asked the vendor, Integrated Voting Solutions, to destroy the old version of the ballot in mid-May. The office sent a revised ballot to the company, asking them to destroy the previous version due to a glitch with the file. Staff noticed this problem when they tested the system and attempted to use the audio features of the ballot for disabled voters who needed it read aloud, which is required for compliance with federal election rules. They found it was garbled. |
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