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Maryland Forced to Reissue Thousands of Primary Ballots After Voters Sent Wrong Party’s Ballots 

Maryland election officials are scrambling to resend thousands of mail-in ballots after sending thousands to the wrong political party.

The State Board of Elections said Friday that ballots mailed before May 14 may have been affected by the printing mix-up, forcing officials to send replacement ballots to all voters who had already requested mail-in voting.

More than 500,000 Maryland voters have requested mail-in ballots for the June 23 primary.

Officials claim only a small number of voters may have actually received the wrong ballots, but acknowledged the scope of the uncertainty required a mass reissue.

“It is possible only a small number of voters received the wrong ballot, and most voters received the correct ballot,” the board said in a statement.

Despite that, election administrators insisted every voter who already received a mail ballot would be sent a corrected replacement.

State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis defended the move and described mail-in voting as an “integral facet of the electoral process.”

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