Nearly 300 Fresno County voters received incorrect ballots for the November general election, but no election outcomes were impacted, the Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters reported on Monday.

The department had initially reported that only 11 voters had received incorrect ballots preventing them from fully voting in every election they were entitled to cast a ballot in.

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But it turns out the number was much larger.

The department said the errors occurred after a routine registration list maintenance activity in September fixed incorrect precinct assignments for “many” voters but inadvertently created new errors.

The department plans to completely review all Fresno County addresses early next year, “using Fresno County’s Regional Address database and implementing all procedural changes derived from the current process review.”

Of the 259 incorrectly updated addresses, 143 were assigned to a different registration precinct and received the wrong ballot. Another 116 addresses were assigned to a different precinct, but the voters received the correct ballot because the precinct change maintained the same election choices for the voter.

Among the 143 addresses, the department identified 295 voters who received an incorrect ballot, but because voting is conducted in secrecy those ballots cannot be identified, removed, or replaced and will be part of the final certified results.

The department emphasized that the incorrect ballots were due to human error and not the county’s voting systems.

No Election Outcomes Impacted

The department reviewed the contests where there were incorrect ballots and concluded that even in tight races, they would not have affected the outcomes.

The race with the most incorrect ballots was the Fresno Unified Hoover region trustee election in which incumbent Claudia Cazares won a third term, defeating challenger Dan Bordona by a razor-thin 93 votes. In that race, the Registrar of Voters identified 41 incorrect ballots.

In Congressional District 13 (Democrat challenger Adam Gray and Republican Rep. John Duarte), one ballot was incorrect, and in Fresno City Council District 6 (Nick Richardson and Roger Bonakdar), there were 11 incorrect ballots.

There were no bad ballots in the San Joaquin City Council, Clovis Unified Trustee Area 2, Laguna Irrigation District Division 2, or Kingsburg Joint Union High School District’s Measure K, the department reported.

Even though Measure K passed by 56.25%, the department is conducting a recount starting Wednesday. The threshold for school bond measures to pass is 55%.

A recount that had been scheduled for Tuesday in the Laguna race, in which Wes Harmon and Frank Zonneveld tied with 101 votes apiece. The recount was canceled by the requestor, according to the department’s website.

The incorrect ballots were not the only snafu for the County Clerk/Registrar of Voters department this fall. In October, a passerby found a key left behind by election workers after they had collected ballots from a drop box near Fancher Creek.

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Those workers were reassigned to other tasks, the department reported at the time. In the case of the incorrect ballots, those workers face corrective action that could include retraining and reassignment.