ATLANTA, Ga. -- In an email the Fulton county elections office warned residents who received new voter registration cards to check them carefully.
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It said, in part:
Due to issues with the States VoterNet system, a small percentage of residents received voter registration cards with incorrect information.
Fulton County Registration and Elections Chairman Richard Baron said the problem seemed to originate with the state's new elections software VoterNet.
"Once we got the printed cards back from the state, we did a hand audit of a 156,000 cards. We ended up pulling about 20,000 cards out of that batch." said Baron.
He said some may have slipped through. His office expects to send out new cards by the end of business Wednesday.
The error comes as Fulton County just settled its last election problems.
In the last election cycle, scores of Fulton County senior citizens living in a high rise were purged from the system after they were told, incorrectly, that their address was a vacant lot.
In the primary, hundreds received faulty voter registration cards and were sent to the wrong voting precincts.
As a result the elections chairman, Sam Westmoreland, and a board member were forced out.
Baron is the new chairman. He was hired in July and is well aware of the less that stellar reputation his department has.
"I'm confident everything is going to be worked out by then and we've got plenty of provisional ballots for each precinct just in case," said Baron.
He said as one of the last counties to be added into VoterNet there were bound to be a few problems, but he believes they're being fixed as they come up.
"Anytime there's a large software implementation they are going to be issues. Everybody at the state is working hard, and my team is working with the state to do it," said Baron.
He suggests voters call (404) 730-7072 to double-check voting information. You can also check online.
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