A third regional county — this time Warren — has sent out a notice of inaccuracies on absentee ballots sent out to voters.
The error for Warren is the same one made on the original mail-in and absentee ballots for McKean County — an incorrect request to vote for “no more than three” county commissioners, when it should be two.
The error in Warren was made only on absentee ballots for 233 voters during the week starting Oct. 16. Replacement absentee ballots will be mailed this week.
“Every voter who requested an absentee ballot will receive a new ballot. All mail ballots will have the correct instructions for the commissioner’s race,” the notice read.
McKean County’s ballot error came to light Oct. 16 on mail-in and absentee ballots. New ballots will be mailed out by the end of the month. Voting at the precincts on the day of the general election will not be impacted.
Last week, the Potter County elections office sent out a notice of ballot errors for voters in Homer, Portage and Wharton townships.
The first error of two found was for Austin School District Board Region 3. The incorrect ballot said to vote for one; correctly, it should be to vote for two, for voters in Portage and Wharton townships. The second error was a missing race for constable on the Homer Township ballot.
There were no candidates in either contest.
Voters in those three townships will vote by paper ballot on election day. Anyone who may have already received a mail-in or absentee ballot, but has yet to vote, is asked to disregard the original ballot “and to wait until a new updated ballot is issued to you by mail,” the notice from the elections office continued.
Any voters in those three townships who already returned their mail-in or absentee ballot is being asked to re-vote the new updated ballot they will receive, and return it as instructed.