Nearly 50,000 voters in Franklin County, Ohio, received an incorrect absentee voting ballot this week.
The Franklin County Board of Elections said Friday in a press release that 49,669 Buckeye State voters received an incorrect absentee ballot, amounting to almost 21% of the total ballots mailed out in that county, according to WOSU Radio.
“We can now confirm that 49,669 voters received an incorrect ballot,” the county’s Board of Elections tweeted Friday. “Those voters will be contacted directly by the Franklin County Board of Elections and a replacement ballot will be mailed to them. Please visit https://bit.ly/b5EXQR or call 614-525-3100 if you have questions.”
We can now confirm that 49,669 voters received an incorrect ballot.
Those voters will be contacted directly by the Franklin County Board of Elections and a replacement ballot will be mailed to them. Please visit https://t.co/wnMx1Tg0U4 or call 614-525-3100 if you have questions. pic.twitter.com/OMdOd2jWOS
— Franklin Co. Boe (@FranklinCoBOE) October 9, 2020
The board said it has started the process of printing and mailing the replacement ballots and that it anticipates those will be sent out over the next 72 hours.
“We want to make it clear that every voter who received an inaccurate ballot will receive a corrected ballot,” the board said. “Stringent tracking measures are in place to guarantee that a voter can only cast one vote.”
Concerns about the integrity of mail-in voting have grown across the country after multiple incidents occurred in which ballots were stolen from mailboxes and discarded. Incidents like the one in Franklin County where voters were mailed the wrong ballot have also caused concern.
This week, it was reported that roughly 7,000 voters were mailed ballots for the wrong district, and hundreds of voters in Massachusetts received ballots with incorrect information.
