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Elections Clerk: Machine Error Mailed Some Bergen County Voters Ballot With Wrong Candidates Elections Clerk: Machine Error Mailed Some Bergen County Voters Ballot With Wrong Candidates
Elections Clerk: Machine Error Mailed Some Bergen County Voters Ballot With Wrong Candidates New Jersey has a vote-by-mail election -- what could possibly go wrong? The same day that a North Jersey mail carrier was charged with dumping 1,800 pieces of mail including elections ballots, the Bergen County Elections Clerk issued a letter saying some residents had been mailed ballots with the wrong candidates. A programming error by an outside vendor sent some Teaneck voters ballots with the wrong candidates for the House of Representatives for the upcoming general election, according to a letter issued to residents Wednesday. "The Board of Elections has been made aware and alread…