Butte election clerk says human error caused primary election miscount

Butte-Silver Bow’s election head Tuesday told state lawmakers human error led to a miscount in the county’s June primary election. Officials last month completed a full recount of the vote.

Butte’s recount was ordered after election officials determined around 1,100 more votes had been recorded than the number of ballots received by the county.

Linda Sajor-Joyce is Butte-Silver Bow’s Elections Clerk. She told state lawmakers on a special committee Tuesday the miscount was due to election workers accidentally including data from a pre-election test of voting machines in the final count.

“We inadvertently loaded the memory stick that had our public test data,” Sajor-Joyce said.



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