The Summit County Clerk’s office was alerted to ballot problems over the weekend. They’ve received multiple calls that the address on the return envelope is the San Juan County Clerk’s office address, not Summit County. Carolyn Murray has this:
Summit County Clerk, Kent Jones said the ballots sent out are correct, but the return addresses have the wrong County Clerk’s office address. They’re working with the Seattle based printing company to identify the extent of the problem.
“Right now, we’re in the process of finding out how many that could affect. The people that have called us and told us that’s what happened, we’ve got back to them and told them if they will just go ahead and vote their ballot. The ballot’s correct and don’t mail it. Put it in a drop box and any of those that come in with a San Juan County return envelope, we’ll know. We can still match up the name, address and voter number. We’ve also contacted San Juan County and said if you get any of these in the mail, they’re our ballots. You’ve got to return them to us.”
Jones said they need to know how many people received the wrong envelope, then they can take measures to accommodate the mistake.
“We have K and H Printing in Seattle, Washington to print our ballots. We send them the file which would include name and addresses of where to mail them to. They print the ballot, they put the envelope in and they mail the ballot direct from there to the voters. So, the first time we see them is when they come back to us. But, we know which batch and we know the number of ballots that were in the batch, we just don’t know how many of them could have been mis-picked with the envelopes. So, we’re in the process of finding that out now.”
The printing company told the Clerk’s office that 131 ballots were in the final batch that were sent to Summit County voters.
“Everything is correct with the ballot and everything should be correct with their address and voter number. It’s just the return ballot was a San Juan County ballot that got, probably at the end of a run, got put in the wrong batch. But as far as the ballot and the vote and everything will count. We just need to make sure you get it in a drop box. But, if they did mail it to San Juan, we will get them back from San Juan, but they did not know at this time how many could have been in the wrong envelope.”
Jones asks anyone who has a San Juan return address with their ballot, to use a drop box rather than mailing through the postal service. Ballot Drop Box locations are open from 7 am to 8 pm through election day. Locations are: the Marsac Building in Old Town, the Richins/County library building at Kimball Junction, the Coalville City Hall, the County Services Building in Kamas or at the Clerk’s Office in Coalville.
