A technological blunder left nearly three-quarters of Beaver County voting precincts with incorrect election results for nearly a week following November s hotly contested presidential election.
In total, a combined 2,000 votes for President Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump disappeared and reappeared from vote tallies.
Corrections to the county s official results online were only made after a Times investigation brought the errors to the attention of now-retired county election Director Dorene Mandity. It was human error, I guess my human error, Mandity told the Times. When I went in to upload the new results, I loaded the backup file. Then, when I did that again, it didn t carry over the new results so I wasn t loading to the file with the most current results.
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It was a somber scene March 16, 2020, at the Beaver County Courthouse.
Earlier in the day, county officials had received word that the first case of COVID-19 had been detected in Beaver County. That weekend, Allegheny County officials had begun ordering business closures and restricting gatherings, but county officials were initially having none of that.
The tone changed after word came that an Aliquippa School District employee had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The board of commissioners, along with the head of Beaver County Emergency Services Eric Brewer, addressed the county, declared a state of emergency in the county and begged residents to take the pandemic seriously.