Election judges in Boulder County will be called Tuesday night to double-check several hundred ballots to make sure people did not vote twice after the county experienced technical problems on Tuesday morning.
The county’s print-on-demand system for ballots was overwhelmed after it was asked to print too many at one time as people rushed to cast last minute votes, said Mircalla Wozniak, spokeswoman for the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office.
Typically, when people show up to vote on election day, the system assigns voting credit as the ballot is printed. But when the system was overwhelmed Monday the automatic vote credit was not happening, Wozniak said.
All of those ballots will be specially marked and a team of election judges will review them to make sure people have not voted twice, she said.
“Right now, it’s several 100, not several 1,000,” Wozniak said.
The issue caused lines earlier in the day but by lunch time most polling sites were moving quickly, she said. The longest lines were on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus.
“It, for a brief period, slowed down the process,” Wozniak said. “It doesn’t impact the voter as much as it impacts our process. We try to keep people moving through the voting sites.”
The county was bringing its system back up in hopes of restoring the automatic vote credit.
The county expects 200,000 people to vote Tuesday.
