Tippecanoe County Election Board worried about absentee ballots unaccounted for

Tippecanoe County Election Board worried about absentee ballots unaccounted for

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The head of the election board says there are thousands of mail-in votes not accounted for yet.

Randy vonderheide and county clerk julie roush answer how the election played out and what the county and state can do better going forward.

Jb: tippecanoe county more than quadrupled the record for mail in votes in this year's primary.

Sot: turnout was lower than we expected but the turnout for mail in ballots was extremely high.

Jb: county clerk julie says she's extremely happy with how the county handled the election considering the cirumstances.

Sot: we did a great job.

We know that we did itthoroughly.

We know that we matched signatures.

We are ensuring the integrity of the election.

Jb: however there is integral part of voting that the tippecanoe county election board abides by sot: our standard is to not lose one vote.

Losing a vote means losing a voice.

Sot: the concern would be voters have been disenfranchised.

Jb: the head of the election board randy vonderheide says he worries votes may have been lost and did not get counted.

Sot: i still have the question as to where out absentee ballots are?

Did those people's vote count?

Jb: more than 22,252 people voted and approximately 8,700 were by mail.

The turnout rate was jut shy of 20%.

Sot: never do all the ballots come at 1 time.

Roush says the official results of the primary come 10 days after the election.

Sot: i'm sure that through the week we will recive ballots and that's one of the erros i am talking about with mauil-in ballots.

Roush and vonderheide say they have to abide by state mandates.

Those votes will not count.

Roush says november should not be anything like the primary because typically for mail-in ballots voters need a reason to do it that way.

But, vonderheide adds people will do better the next time around if they stick with the absentee ballot.

Sot: people have to understand what that process is.

They have to understand they have to be timely and they don't want to wait until the last day to request an absentee ballots june 12th is when official results of the primary will be finalized.

If the state adds new mandates to voting we will keep you updated.