Republican voters in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania's primary election this week reported a concerning "Typo" that presented them with ballots for Democratic voters despite their party affiliation.
According to WNEP-TV, some polling locations reported the concerning error, which appeared when poll workers pulled up ballots on Dominion Voting Systems machines for Republican voters only to find them labeled "Official Democratic Ballot."
Alternate provisional ballots were made available for voters who were uncomfortable with reassurances that this "Typo" didn't impact their votes.
"Came out of the machine, on the paper was marked 'Republican.' All of the candidates that I voted for the word were Republican. If that doesn't get counted correctly, it's beyond the scope of any of us to do anything about it," Kingston voter Dudley Snyder told WNEP. Kingston Townships's judge of elections said he paused voting on Tuesday morning to address the issue and that officials in Wilkes-Barre informed him it had been a mere "Typo" and when voters proceeded to the next screen, they were presented with a Republican ballot.
Luzerne County's election director Bob Morgan said Republican votes will be counted correctly and that Republican ballots had printed out correctly.
There are more than enough previous accusations of Dominion machines seeming to errantly favor Democratic voters or candidates to seriously undermine public trust not only in the technology being used to conduct elections but the outcome of the elections themselves.
At the very least, maybe we should stop using these dubious machines or find a better way to screen against the types of errors that so seriously undermine voter confidence.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/coding-error-blamed-democratic-ballots-appear-voting-machines
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