Glitch delays delivery of updated Ohio voter records

Some may have been rejected by mistake

10/31/2012

COLUMBUS — A glitch in the transfer of change-of-address records is being blamed for a small number of Ohio voters' absentee ballot requests possibly being rejected by mistake.

The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that the problem can be traced to a delay transferring some updated address records from the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles to Secretary of State Jon Husted's office.

Husted just this week sent about 33,000 updated registration records to local elections officials. Because of the delay, an unknown number of absentee ballot applications had been rejected because county elections officials didn't have some voters' current addresses.

Officials in Cuyahoga County — which includes Cleveland — said 71 such applications were rejected. Those voters will be sent new absentee ballots. Numbers weren't available for other counties.