Lackawanna County, as a result of what elections officials call a "printer's error," sent the wrong Mail-in-Ballot (MIB) to 545 Republican voters. Instead of receiving a ballot for this year's primary, they were sent a ballot for the 2024 primary. This error has been corrected.
Lackawanna sent out over 12,000 MIBs total.
Lackawanna is still a Democratic county, unlike other Northeast Pa counties. It voted for Harris. Understandably, Republicans are suspicious that the wrong ballot would be sent to their voters. A news release from the "PaGOP" asserts, "Elections should never be this sloppy. Taxpayers deserve a county government that functions and a process they can trust. These kinds of mistakes need to be taken seriously, and they need to stop happening."
"The people of Lackawanna County deserve competence, not chaos."
It's sad to see this error because, even though it has been corrected, it gives Republicans another reason to distrust MIBs. Only about a third of the MIBs are being used by Republican voters, and this hurts them in the long run.
