On Sunday, the Montgomery County Board of Elections responded to a tweet that showed a photo of a partially filled-in ballot that was provided to a voter in Takoma Park, explaining that “a voter was inadvertently handed a ballot that had been partially completed by another voter that should have been voided.”
On Tuesday, May 14th, the Twitter/X account @cleanslatemoco tweeted a photo of a ballot and wrote, “The corruption runs deep. Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma [sic] Park…” The following afternoon, the Board of Elections responded by stating they would be looking into it.
On Sunday, May 19th, the Board of Elections (@777vote) tweeted the following:
“Good afternoon, @cleanslatemoco. @777Vote received a complaint that at an Election Day polling place, a voter was inadvertently handed a ballot that had been partially completed by another voter that should have been voided.
The voter alerted Election Judges, who explained that they should have voided the ballot and not given it to the voter, voided that ballot, and provided a new ballot to the voter. Our election judges apologized for the error, and the voter voted a new ballot.
@777Vote staff reached out to the voter by phone (but did not reach her) and followed with an email to apologize for the error and advise the voter that the procedure for preventing such errors (including the need to promptly void unusable ballots) will be emphasized in all future Election Judges’ training.”
The full Twitter/X thread can be seen below:
Good afternoon, @cleanslatemoco. @777Vote received a complaint that at an Election Day polling place, a voter was inadvertently handed a ballot that had been partially completed by another voter that should have been voided. https://t.co/pn3W6otv89
— MontgomeryMDVotes (@777Vote) May 19, 2024