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An error by the 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.
Roughly 27,000 mail-in ballots were applied for and as of Tuesday nearly 18,000 had been returned. We ll be starting the hand count at the end of the week, weekend, we re fleshing that out at the moment, Christa Miller, chief clerk of the board of elections, said. She anticipates the hand county will take three to four days to complete, and final results will be available by early next week.