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The Campaign for Verifiable Voting had urged thousands of its supporters to request paper ballots to create a verifiable paper trail of their votes.
But under state law, paper ballots can be used only if "the individual's name does not appear on the precinct register." State officials told The (Baltimore) Sun that county election judges erred in offering the paper alternative.
The requests for paper ballots were denied in many cases, but in some instances they were honored by election judges with incorrect information.
As a result, the votes are sitting uncounted.
"That is not what we were planning to do," said Linda Schade, a co-director with the campaign. "We are not happy about it."
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