Thousands of New Jersey Voters Receive Wrong Mail-in Ballots
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HANNAH BLEAU
7 Oct 2020
Thousands of New Jersey voters received the wrong mail-in ballots, which listed the incorrect congressional district, this week — just weeks ahead of the November 3 election.
Nearly 25 percent of the ballots sent to Teaneck residents, 6,867 ballots of 28,151, listed the wrong congressional district . . .
. . . those will be voided in the event of the voter sending in the correct ballot. If they do not, the incorrect ballot will be counted, minus the incorrect congressional race, per the outlet.
Similarly, over 2,000 Los Angeles County voters recently
received the faulty ballots, which were missing the section to cast a vote for a candidate vying for the presidency.
In August, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that the state would embrace the vote-by-mail model used in the state’s primary and apply it to the general election.
“We’re going to extend that model into the general election in November. Most importantly, we’ve learned some lessons, including we’re going to have more presence of secure drop boxes,” Murphy
said at the time. . . . .
. . . Mass mail-in voting has been met with growing skepticism. Over 1,600
uncounted ballots from the Garden State’s July 7 primary were discovered in a mislabeled bin last month and swiftly counted in the final tally. . . .
