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Delegates press board over reports of ballot‑marking device errors and missing names
Summary
Delegates told the Board of Elections they received reports of devices requiring multiple resets and at least one candidate missing from a voter's ballot; the board called the incident "isolated" but could not fully explain what happened at specific polling places.
Vice chair Harrison described a constituent and one machine where a candidate's name did not appear and said the device had to be reset multiple times. "It came to me that that the machine did have to be reset several times," Harrison said, and asked how many other voters may have been affected.
Wendy Honesty Bey said she had contacted the chief judge and taken information from the judge's report but did not have a definitive account of the in‑precinct events. She reiterated that the board conducts logic and accuracy testing and proofing for all voting equipment and called the reported incident "isolated," while acknowledging the board cannot say for certain what occurred at that voter’s site without further investigation.
