#june primary

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Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California's June primary | AP News

Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California' primary despite efforts to count every vote

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries.

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Seven was the key number and two-three-one-one the split that the Newport News Electoral Board was looking for.

The three-person board, appointed by the city's Circuit Court judges, was programming and testing the 32 vote-counting machines they'll deploy for the June 14 primary to be sure they will tally votes accurately.

Each machine needed to record two votes for one candidate, three (including a poorly marked ballot) for the other, as well as one blank ballot and one "over-vote," or a ballot marked with both candidates' names.

Testing is a key step election officials across the state take before every election, even for fairly simple ones like the two-candidate primary for state Senate in Newport News. The process includes a step-by-step rehearsal of what precinct election officials will do when they open and close polls, and do their unofficial election night counts.

Click on the headline to read the full story. ~ Newport News Daily Press