About 39, 000 citizens in Carson City, Nevada, may acquire new vote next week after an error by the clerk’s office falsely listed a third-party prospect as a Democrat.
The Nevada Appeal reported on Saturday that Carson City people who had received their mail-in vote for the 2024 vote had discovered a blunder in the 2nd Congressional District of the Silver State. The Independent American Party member Lynn Chapman was wrong listed as a Democrat.
The error was not present on trial vote, the outlet reported.
Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District is considered healthy for Republicans this November, according to RealClearPolling. GOP Rep. Mark Amodei has held the couch since 2011.
Unlike most says, Nevada requires nearby clerks to quickly email individuals listed on the state’s effective voter registration record a vote during each election cycle, according to , Ballotpedia.
When pressed on the matter by The Federalist, Carson City Clerk-Recorder Scott Hoen took responsibility for the “honest mistake”, saying he and his office” simply did n’t catch it when]they ] were proofreading” the ballots. He explained that the problem affects roughly 39, 000 mailed ballots and that his business is “working on sending out a corrected vote to replace the original earlier next week.”
All returned unique ballots may be held until the vote casts a vote in person, as Hoen and his business have it more stated in a press release. Hoen’s office” may count the classic ballot” if a voter who returned their initial ballot does not turn in their corrected ballot, the presser claims.
” We will hold]a voter’s ] original]ballot ] until the last minute and will count their original in the event we do n’t receive a corrected ballot”, Hoen told The Federalist.  ,” All in person voting systems ]have ] already been fixed and ready for the election”.
]READ NEXT: Nevada’s Failed Mass Mail-In Ballot Experiment Should Have Been A Case Study, Not A Blueprint ]
When The Federalist inquired about the methods his company has in place to ensure that both votes returned to and sent to the same vote were never counted, Hoen claimed that they are “putting those processes and procedures in writing as we speak to be very clear on all the possible result.”
” We are fortunate to have great vendor support from ES&, S ( Election Systems and Software ) along with the state’s new top-down voter registration system called VREMS ( Voter Registration Election and Management System ) and their vendor”, Hoen said. They are “working through the development processes to ensure that we count correctly and give the appropriate voter credit,” he adds.
Further, the presser from the Clerk-Recorder’s office added that” [r]turn ballot envelopes have unique IDs assigned to the voter and in-person voters are tracked through Nevada’s Voter Registration Election Management System, ensuring that only one ballot will be counted,” according to the Nevada Appeal.
The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood