SEQUIM — Four-hundred Sequim-area voters have received printed envelopes that would send their mail-in ballots to Friday Harbor, not to the Port Angeles office of the Clallam County auditor.
The misprinted envelopes addressed to the San Juan County auditor were the fault of a printer’s error that a voter discovered when he received his ballot Friday.
The voters in Eagle Precinct who received erroneous Clallam County envelopes have two ways to rectify the error:
* Call Julie Ridgway, county voter registration coordinator, at 360-417-2221 to request new envelopes.
* Deposit their completed ballots at Sequim office of the Department of Licensing, 1001 E. Washington St. in the Schwab Realty building.
There, office manager Karen Shewbert will look out for the incorrect envelopes and send them to the auditor — the one in Port Angeles, that is.
Forwarded from San Juan
San Juan County also will be alert for ballots from Sequim — which automated scanners will detect immediately — and forward them to Port Angeles in plenty of time to be counted.
There is no chance that a voter will be disenfranchised, said Elections Coordinator Patty Rosand.
A voter in Eagle precinct noticed the wrong address and called the auditor’s office, wondering why he was to mail his ballot to Friday Harbor.
Another 100 or so wrongly addressed envelopes — these for a precinct near Freshwater Bay — were caught and replaced.
The snafu was traced to Ballot and Business Forms in Tacoma, which printed blue envelopes for both Clallam and San Juan counties.
One box of 500 envelopes in a carton of four boxes was switched with a box for San Juan County.
