Approximately 10,000 voters in Prince George’s County received the wrong sample ballots for July’s primary elections, the county Board of Elections announced Tuesday.
Voters received sample ballots with incorrect candidate information for their district at a time when election workers already were concerned about confusion over a delayed primary and new boundary lines that were redrawn during the decennial redistricting process.
Sample ballots are not used to vote and contain information on voting locations and a list of candidates who will appear on voters’ actual mail-in or Election Day ballots.
The error arose from a new process Prince George’s County implemented this year to print and distribute sample ballots, said the county’s elections administrator, Alisha Alexander.
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