Some Montgomery County voters may have received a sample ballot mailer for the Nov. 5 general election addressed to an incorrect name, the county’s elections board said Thursday in a press release.
The elections board announced it had sent 132,217 sample ballot informational booklets to voters who live in Congressional District 8, which includes Silver Spring, Bethesda, Rockville, Potomac and other parts of the county, and that mailers with the incorrect recipient name “were sent to a limited number of voters with surnames starting with the letters A and B.” The addresses and corresponding polling places listed are accurate.
The sample ballots are informational and are not official mail-in ballots. None of the information inside the ballot is incorrect, according to the elections board, and the error has no impact on mail-in voting, voter registration or ballot data.
The board said in its release that it will send new, accurate sample ballot information packets to the impacted voters.
“The Board would like to thank the voters who brought errors in the sample ballot to our attention so that we can correct them and provide accurate information to all the voters,” the release said.
Sample ballots for each of the three congressional districts located in the county can also be viewed via the board’s website. The board also encouraged voters to check their voter registration status by texting the word ‘CHECK’ to 77788 or using the voter registration lookup tool on the board website.
