COLUMBUS – Two Franklin County Board of Elections workers have been busy, contacting 79 voters who mailed in absentee ballots for Tuesday’s primary only to have them mailed back by mistake.
Employees discovered the error when they began to sort incoming ballots and the ballots in question were combined with outgoing mail and returned to their senders, according to the Board’s public information officer, Ben Piscitelli.
Piscitelli says two employees — one Democrat and one Republican – have been assigned to retrieve the ballots between now and Tuesday.
Voters also are also being called to let them know they can deliver their ballot to the Board offices at 1700 Morse Road until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
If the voter hasn’t gotten their ballot back, the board will deliver a second ballot and allow the voter to cast it on-site instead of waiting for their first ballot to arrive.
Mailed-in ballots can arrive as late as March 25 to be counted in this election so long as they are postmarked no later than March 14, Piscitelli said.