Hand counts reveal worker ballot-assignment errors; precinct contests adjusted

Aug 14, 2026

During the hand-count of partial ballots canvass staff discovered poll-worker errors where voters were given the wrong local ballot. The board removed county- and precinct-level contests from affected ballots and instructed re-marking and separate tallies for audit.

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While conducting hand counts on provisionals marked 'partial,' staff found several ballots that had been paired with the wrong precinct or township ballot by poll workers. That error meant voters had been given contests for precincts where they no longer resided, so county and local contests on those ballots could not be counted.

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