Allegheny County creates online search tool for incorrect ballots

Allegheny County voters can now go online to check if they’re among the nearly 29,000 voters who received the wrong ballot for the Nov. 3 election.

County officials on Wednesday said they received word late last week that some voters received the wrong ballot. Midwest Direct, the company contracted to print and mail the ballots, reported a programming error that led to 28,870 residents receiving a ballot meant for someone living in a different voting district.

A page on the county website allows users to input their name and find out if they received the wrong ballot. To search your name, visit apps.alleghenycounty.us/voterAllegheny1

Any Pennsylvania voter can check the status of their ballot at pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/BallotTracking.aspx

Voters who received the wrong ballot will be sent a new one, said Elections Division Manager David Voye. Those ballots will be delivered to the post office Thursday, and most should be delivered by next week. The re-issued ballots will be identified on the envelope.

Incorrect ballots that have been returned will be put aside and neither opened nor counted, he said.

As of Thursday, Allegheny County received and approved 373,205 applications for mail-in, absentee, overseas and military ballots, according to the county elections website, 177,774 of which have been returned.