In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, voting machines caused concern for Republican and independent voters which were getting Democrat-labeled ballots throughout the Primary, based on The Daily Wire.
It was revealed that Registered Republicans and independent voters had “received numerous calls from concerned citizens reporting issues with voting machines improperly labeling Republican ballots as Democrat.”
Carl Romanelli said,”Because it’s a primary, Democrats and Republicans or independent non-partisans, have a different ballot.”
“When you got into the ballot marking devices, the header on all of the ballots indicates that it’s a Democratic ballot, but then when you proceed to the actual ballot itself, it is the proper ballot for the voter’s party,” Romanelli continued.
“And when the ballot is printed, it shows that it is in fact the proper ballot.”
Bob Morgan, Director of Elections at Luzerne County, said,”Due to a coding error the Republican primary ballot in today’s Municipal Primary election contains an error in the header when displayed on the viewing screen.”
“This error occurred during vendor programming of the device and appears on Republican ballots countywide. The ballot correctly shows Republican candidates, however, the header of the ballot says ‘Democrat. ”’
“The function of the device has been thoroughly reviewed and tested and the error appears on the screen only.”
“The ballot prints correctly with the Republican header and contains only Republican primary race results. Republicans also have the option to vote with a provisional ballot that will be later reviewed by the Luzerne County Elections Board should they choose not to utilize the machines.”
“We wish to assure all voters that their ballots will be correctly counted.”
“To ensure proper communication of this situation a sign is being placed in each polling place by the judge of election today and posted on the County website. Elections staff and poll workers are working addressing the issue machine to machine throughout the County.”
“Unfortunately, this morning, the machines were all shut down and people were losing their patience and leaving,” a voter stated.
“It’s disheartenening. When you get a person who gets elected in, did they truly get elected in? That’s the question, and no one can truly answer that.”
“It took us about probably five weeks. We gave a final product to Dominion,” Morgan shared.
“There is no evidence of any of this problem on the mail-in ballots which were produced from that file.”
“We’re still working with Dominion to get an explanation as to how this coding error occurred. They were as surprised about it as we were.”
Dominion assured that “all ballots will be correctly counted.”
“Luzerne County’s election director has confirmed that there is a ballot screen error that is confined to the header on the viewing screen of the machine, and that all ballots are printing correctly with the Republican header and the Republican primary election races.”
“As the county has reassured the voting public, all ballots will be correctly counted. We regret any confusion this has caused.”
