Printing Error Causes Election Tally Headache

ATLANTA—A printing error is forcing Gwinnett County election officials to hand copy votes from at least 10,000 absentee election ballots onto new ballots, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The reason: the original ballots, made to be filled out by hand, can't be read by optical scanning machines, as the circle next to the candidate's name is too thick and slightly misshapen.