Butler County has adopted a new policy for what is known as “ballot curing.”
Officials say that policy will now allow mail-in ballots with fixable mistakes, like writing the wrong date or not including a signature, to be corrected.
The bureau of elections will send an email to a voter once their mail-in ballot has been received. If there was a mistake, the email will alert the voter.
However if there is no email provided, the voter’s party will be contacted and then they are responsible for relaying the mistake to the voter. According to the Director of Elections Chantell McCurdy, there are less than 50 mail-in ballots so far this election cycle that have had a mistake on it.
In the last two years, the county has not utilized any ballot curing methods. The new policy was adopted by the recently appointed board of elections, along with the bureau of elections and their solicitor.
