More than 24-thousand Outagamie County ballots have misprints that may prevent them from being read properly on election day.
Clerk Lori O’Bright says they were conducting routine ballot testing last week when they discovered so-called “timing marks” at the bottom of the ballot were not printed correctly–leaving the scanning machine unable to process them.
Deputy Corporation Counsel Kyle Sargent says the solution is to allow election inspectors to “duplicate” the erroneous ballots–a process with stringent requirements.
O’Bright is not sure how many faulty ballots may have already been returned by absentee voters.
All ballots handed out to voters for early in-person voting and at the polls on election day will have been corrected.
