Ballot error in Colorado means ‘hand review’ for some

Colorado’s election office on Wednesday night told county officials they will need to review some ballots by hand following an error in which 800,000 voters received ballots with a sales tax hike question they shouldn’t be asked.

Sorting out the bulk of the ballots erroneously sent, however, should be fairly straightforward, the state’s director of elections said in a letter to the clerks of Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas and Weld counties.

And no — those won’t involve a hand count…

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