Updated on Monday, October 5 at 4 p.m. CT
URBANA – About 600 people in Champaign County have received ballots by mail with errors printed on them.
Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons said in an announcement Monday, a vendor his office uses incorrectly entered some data. He said his team did not discover the error until Thursday, Oct. 1.
Ammons said his office is sending out new ballots as well as letters explaining the issue to everyone affected by it.
The office says 13 people with incorrect ballots have already mailed them in. There were also 15 people who voted in person who were affected.
The office suspended early voting on Friday, Oct. 2 because of the issue. Ammons said early voting resumed Monday morning.
The specific races misprinted included those for some state legislative seats, some county board districts and two Regional Offices of Education. Only three of the state representative seats were contested races with multiple candidates.
Ammons said for the sake of transparency, Democrat and Republican election judges, candidates, party chairs and poll watchers have witnessed his office’s efforts to fix the issue.
URBANA – The Champaign County Clerk said it is suspending early voting on Friday, October 2.
According to an email sent to IPM News on Friday morning from Angie Patton, Chief of Staff of the Champaign County Elections office, the suspension is due to a technical issue involving early voting that was discovered on Thursday evening.
The email said that voting will resume as normal on Monday, October 5.
No other details were made available.
The only site affected is the Bennett Administrative Center in Urbana, where early voting started on September 24. Early voting will expand to 11 sites on October 19.
The general election is November 3.
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