The issue of people voting in the wrong delegate district may be bigger than the Kanawha County Clerk originally thought.
Vera McCormick's staff was able to identify 10 people who originally voted in the wrong district - one in Precinct 416, two in Precinct 175, five in Precinct 403 and two in Precinct 277.
The problem comes from voters being placed in precincts that don't correspond with the delegate district in which they live.
The clerk's office has arranged it so that when people from affected areas come in to vote, they will receive a ballot for the correct delegate district.
But the problem may be bigger than what McCormick originally stated.
McCormick's office said Tuesday that there were potentially 277 people affected by the mixed precinct and delegate lines, but now McCormick has decreased that number to 173 people who have been identified as being in a precinct that doesn't match with their delegate district.
But the county doesn't have a firm grasp on exactly how many people may have been affected.
According to delegate maps, voters on Nottingham Road and much of the Sherwood Forest neighborhood should be voting in the 35th delegate district. However, they are placed in Precinct 277, which votes in the 36th.
There are around 55 houses on Nottingham Road and more than 100 houses in the neighborhood.
"If we get something wrong, we're going to correct it," McCormick said. But she also said that she won't be able to get it corrected before the primary election.
The county has to respect both the city and state lines when drawing their precincts and there are areas where the city and delegate district lines don't match up, which has resulted in people voting in the wrong delegate race.
On Friday, County Attorney Marc Slotnick and Deputy County Manager Andrew Gunnoe were in McCormick's office identifying possible affected areas.
The county has experienced more problems than people voting in the wrong delegate district.
Shortly after early voting had started, the county received complaints that the secrecy sleeves - the shell that goes around the ballot so that poll workers can't see who a voter chose - didn't fully cover the ballot and particularly exposed the sheriff's race on the Democrat ballot.
"They were designed for a normal ballot, not a ballot on steroids," said Kent Carper, the county commission president.
The county has corrected the issue by getting more secrecy sleeves that properly fit the ballot.
These issues with paper ballots will become a thing of the past by the next presidential election. The county commission plans on putting money toward updating voting machines for the off-year election and will switch to electronic voting machines.
When the county went with the paper method, it was shortly after the 2000 election and electronic voting machines were still relatively new.
"We very much wanted a paper backup," said Dave Hardy, a county commissioner.
But electronic voting machines also come with their issues. In Ohio County, a candidate for school board was placed on a separate page from all the other candidates she was running against.
Carper said that the issue there was with whoever made the ballot, not the machines, but did say that machines are difficult when it comes to elections like the Republican National Convention delegate election, where there are 200 people on the ballot.
As of Saturday, more than 7,000 people had voted early, which McCormick said breaks the early voting record of 6,000 set in 2008. In 2008, 43 percent of the population voted in the primary in Kanawha County.
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