{"id":1703718,"date":"2022-10-20T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703718"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:49:16","slug":"5000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-california-voters-in-riverside-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-california-voters-in-riverside-county\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 Duplicate Ballots Sent to California Voters in Riverside County"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-california-voters-in-riverside-county%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Around 5,000 residents of Riverside County in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-california\">California<\/a> received a duplicated ballot ahead of the November midterm elections this week, which officials blamed on a computer system error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz x1gslohp\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">Riverside County Registrar of Voters office said<\/span><\/span><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\"> the 5,000 duplicate ballots were erroneously mailed to some voters in Canyon Lake, Menifee, Murrieta, Wildomar, and Winchester after a computer system error \u201cmistakenly generated\u201d the mailing files. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz x1gslohp\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\">Officials said the error was identified over the weekend before they could be stopped from being delivered to the U.S. Postal Service.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to note that none of the duplicate ballots will result in a voter being able to cast more than one ballot,\u201d said Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02x1cA6VEGDghCCowR3v29BEPyX7Qe17mwMr4kKjLJfuP53fxErjLgwhtwcbAoxwALl&#038;id=100066598594713\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI take election integrity seriously and apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer said that every vote-by-mail envelope has a bar code and that once scanned as accepted at the Registrar of Voters office it automatically locks the voter\u2019s record so that the person can only vote once.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who received two ballots were advised to use vote with one and destroy the second, which Spencer said would be automatically voided once the other is scanned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first ballot received would be processed and the second ballot would be automatically voided,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Registrar of Voters office said the computer system error was resolved and\u00a0procedures have been put in place to prevent the error in the future.<\/p>\n<p>California is one of nine states\u2014including\u00a0Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington\u2014to mail ballots to all registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>All 50 states offer vote-by-mail, or absentee, ballot options to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>California also offers early in-person voting, along with 45 other states.\u00a0Alabama, Connecticut, Mississippi, and New Hampshire are the only exceptions, although all four provide vote-by-mail ballot options.<\/p>\n<p>California also offers a 29-day period for in-person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-early-voting\">early voting<\/a>. This year that is slated for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Oct. 10 to Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-caden-pearson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38ce23ace09f12718ad757e5cb92eca2\" alt=\"Caden Pearson\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Caden Pearson is a reporter based in Australia. 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