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Election officials in Washington County must provide mail-in voters notice if their ballot will not be counted because of a paperwork error and allow them to cast a provisional ballot on election day, a county judge has ruled.
Washington County Judge Brandon P. Neuman granted an injunction sought by voting rights groups to block a policy of not informing voters if their ballot was rejected because of an error that the county Board of Elections adopted just before the April primary.
The groups claimed the policy disenfranchised voters by effectively hiding from them the fact that their votes would not be counted and denying them the opportunity to cast provisional ballots.
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