About 5,000 folks in Riverside County will obtain duplicate vote-by-mail ballots for the November midterm election after a “pc system error,” however the mistake gained’t enable voters to solid ballots twice, in keeping with the county registrar.

The pc error was caught over the weekend, however not earlier than 5,000 mail-in ballots have been despatched to voters residing in Canyon Lake, Menifee, Murrieta, Wildomar and Winchester, stated Rebecca Spencer, the Riverside County registrar of voters.

Spencer really helpful anybody who receives an identical ballots to destroy the additional copy.

“It is very important be aware that not one of the duplicate ballots will end in a voter having the ability to solid a couple of poll,” Spencer stated in a information launch. “I take election integrity severely and apologize for the inconvenience.”

Every vote-by-mail envelope has a novel bar code that, as soon as scanned, will mechanically lock a voter’s document so a second poll can’t be accepted, Spencer stated. If a voter returns each ballots, solely the primary can be processed and the second can be “mechanically voided.”

Spencer stated the pc error is “resolved and procedures have been put in place to forestall the error sooner or later.”

The mishap comes months after the Riverside County Board of Supervisors accepted a brand new residents committee targeted on election integrity, which may make suggestions to enhance the voting course of.

Although some election vigilantes within the county have claimed widespread voter fraud in latest elections, an in-depth investigation by the district lawyer final 12 months discovered just one case of voter fraud from the 2016 election, after pursuing a whole lot of false leads. There was no proof of widespread voter fraud within the U.S. in recent times, regardless of rising claims of such.

All registered voters, in Riverside and throughout the state, ought to obtain a vote-by-mail poll for the Nov. 8 election, however voters may solid ballots in individual or return accomplished ballots to any voting location.

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