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Mail-in ballot counting will likely continue into Monday as elections officials continue to re-mark thousands of ballots made unscannable by the countyâs mail-in ballot vendor.
On Saturday, 12 teams of three workers were transferring votes from the faulty ballots to new ballots that can be scanned. As of 1 p.m. Saturday, roughly 2,700 of the 12,300 affected ballots had been transferred to new, scannable ballots.
Christa Miller, chief clerk of the Lancaster County Board of Elections, said the teams are prioritizing contested races to get the most high-priority races finished first.
The transfer to new ballots is necessary because the countyâs mail-in ballot vendor â Michigan Election Resources, which recently changed its name to Plerus â printed multisheet ballots in the wrong order. The printing error made the majority of mail-in ballots submitted by voters unreadable by county elections office scanning machines.
Capital-Star photo by Stephen Caruso State Sen. Doug Mastriano addresses a crowd of Trump supporters at the Pennsylvania state Capitol on Saturday, Nov. 7. As President Donald Trump egged on his supporters and called for a “fight” before they marched to the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, he cited a false statistic that traces its origins back to Harrisburg. “Pennsylvania had 205,000 more votes than you had voters,” Trump falsely claimed. The president’s false claim can be traced back to a Dec. 28 letter signed by 17 of the state’s Republican lawmakers, who used incomplete data to claim that the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results was ”premature, unconfirmed, and in error.”