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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno County Clerk provided a last update astir ballots that were sent to the incorrect people.
During the extremity of November, region officials learned that 11 voters received incorrect ballots and casted their ballot successful the county. Now, it is known that 259 addresses received incorrect ballots.
“We were checking our registration database versus our code GIS database, our geographic accusation database, wherever we spot addresses connected a map. And we said, 'Are determination immoderate conflicts betwixt these?' And we identified 1200 conflicts that should beryllium updated successful immoderate fashion. We past asked unit to reappraisal those,” Fresno County Clerk James Kus said.
Kus said quality mistake is to blasted for the addresses receiving incorrect ballots, which resulted successful 295 radical voting connected the incorrect ballot.
“It was not an automatic machine decided process and truthful the humans went and did probe and successful immoderate cases they said, 'No, don't marque immoderate change. What's successful the registration database is the champion choice.' Sometimes they said, 'Make the change.' They trusted information, the geographic accusation database that was outdated oregon incorrect,” Kus explained.
However, Kus said this ballot mistake won't interaction immoderate race.
“We did not find that these voters would person materially affected the result of immoderate contention successful Fresno County, including immoderate of our tightest races, similar a necktie down successful Laguna Irrigation oregon the Congressional District 13 race,” Kus said.
Instead, the region present faces the task of making definite everyone gets the close ballot for aboriginal elections.
“That GIS database I mentioned that's going retired the doorway and we're bringing successful a full caller one, moving with the county. We can't unreserved that process and we allowed that to hap a small for this predetermination arsenic we're moving into the ballot by message stages and getting ballots out,” Kus said.
Kus says helium doesn't judge that this ballot mistake was done intentionally.
