Envelope containing voting ballot papers being sent by mail for absentee vote in presidential election
The state Elections Commission is asking a judge to let county officials in northeastern Wisconsin use something as simple as a Sharpie to fix a misprint on thousands of absentee ballots.
The printer left a small white gap along the edge of nearly 25 thousand ballots that would cause them to be rejected by vote-counting machines. It is estimated at least five thousand of the flawed ballots were mailed in Outagamie County and 28 hundred were returned. If the court doesn’t allow the low-tech fix, counting those ballots could be delayed significantly.
