California’s Riverside County Mails 5,000 Duplicate Ballots; Registrar Promises Won’t Count

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California’s Riverside County Mails 5,000 Duplicate Ballots; Registrar Promises Won’t Count

Joel B. Pollak 19 Oct 2022

The registrar of Riverside County, California, announced Monday that 5,000 duplicate ballots had been sent by mail — but that none of them would count if voters tried to vote twice.

In a statement, Riverside County Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer apologized:

    Approximately 5,000 duplicate ballots were erroneously mailed to some voters in Riverside County. A computer system error mistakenly generated duplicate mailing files for 5,000 voters. The computer system error was identified over the weekend, however, the ballot packets were already delivered to the U.S. Postal Service.

    “It is important to note that none of the duplicate ballots will result in a voter being able to cast more than one ballot,” said Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer. “I take election integrity seriously and apologize for the inconvenience.”

    Each vote-by-mail envelope has a bar code. When the bar code is scanned as accepted at the Registrar of Voters office it automatically locks the voter’s record so that the voter can only vote once. If a voter who received two ballots returned both ballots, only one ballot would count. The first ballot received would be processed and the second ballot would be automatically voided.

The county said voters who received a second ballot should destroy it, and submit only one ballot before Election Day, November 8.

Prior to 2,000, voters in California who wished to vote by mail would have to request to do so. During the pandemic, the state began sending vote-by-mail ballots automatically to all voters on the rolls. As a result, some people reported receiving ballots for people who no longer lived at the address recorded on the rolls, or for people who had already died.

Voters are required to sign their ballot envelopes when voting by mail; signatures are compared to those on the voter rolls, but “[e]xact matches are not required” by law.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/19/californias-riverside-county-mails-5000-duplicate-ballots-registrar-promises-wont-count/

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October 19, 2022
Oops! She did it again -- Riverside, California registrar mails 5,000 voters duplicate ballots
By Monica Showalter

So this happened, in Riverside County, (population 2.4 million) California, according to the Los Angeles Times:

    About 5,000 people in Riverside County will receive duplicate vote-by-mail ballots for the November midterm election after a “computer system error,” but the mistake won’t allow voters to cast ballots twice, according to the county registrar.

    The computer error was caught over the weekend, but not before 5,000 mail-in ballots were sent to voters living in Canyon Lake, Menifee, Murrieta, Wildomar and Winchester, said Rebecca Spencer, the Riverside County registrar of voters.

    Spencer recommended anyone who receives identical ballots to destroy the extra copy.

Nothing to see here, little technical glitch, just throw that extra ballot away, and move along. They've got this. Elections are always clean in California. Problem over, right?

Not exactly.

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