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some voters in what is the 3rd largest county (Montgomery County where one of my sisters lives) received ballots that were only printed on one side (and should have been printed on both). It didn't appear to be a "proof" issue as the printer admitted that they caught their own programming error (and apparently the contract was for them to mail them out as well) -
Voting by mail in Montgomery County? Here's why you shouldn't return your ballot yet
Chris Ullery
Bucks County Courier Times
Published 11:02 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2021 | Updated 8:28 a.m. ET Oct. 5, 2021
About 16,000 Montgomery County voters will be sent replacement mail-in ballots in the coming weeks, after election officials were notified of a printing error Friday evening. The bad ballots were only printed on one side, and the Montgomery County Department of Voter Services says voters should destroy those ballots when they arrive, a news release from the county states.
Replacement ballots will be shipped out automatically to affected voters over the week; the county also will try to contact those voters by email, phone or mail. NPC Inc, of Claysburg, Allegheny County, pointed to a programming error as the cause for the misprints, which company CEO Chip Gallaher said was fixed soon after it was caught.
"Once the error was recognized, we immediately stopped production and began to investigate. Our investigation determined that a programming error caused the back page of the ballot to be omitted,” Gallaher said in the county release. The county election office has used NPC for "Printing & Mailing Services" since at least 2020, according to meeting minutes. The county commissioners voted 3-2 approving a $2 million, one-year contract with NPC in January.
https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/10/04/montgomery-county-replaces-16-000-misprint-mail-ballots/5987660001/
Chris Ullery
Bucks County Courier Times
Published 11:02 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2021 | Updated 8:28 a.m. ET Oct. 5, 2021
About 16,000 Montgomery County voters will be sent replacement mail-in ballots in the coming weeks, after election officials were notified of a printing error Friday evening. The bad ballots were only printed on one side, and the Montgomery County Department of Voter Services says voters should destroy those ballots when they arrive, a news release from the county states.
Replacement ballots will be shipped out automatically to affected voters over the week; the county also will try to contact those voters by email, phone or mail. NPC Inc, of Claysburg, Allegheny County, pointed to a programming error as the cause for the misprints, which company CEO Chip Gallaher said was fixed soon after it was caught.
"Once the error was recognized, we immediately stopped production and began to investigate. Our investigation determined that a programming error caused the back page of the ballot to be omitted,” Gallaher said in the county release. The county election office has used NPC for "Printing & Mailing Services" since at least 2020, according to meeting minutes. The county commissioners voted 3-2 approving a $2 million, one-year contract with NPC in January.
https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/10/04/montgomery-county-replaces-16-000-misprint-mail-ballots/5987660001/
So it does happen!
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