The Santa Clara Registrar of Voters is urgently scrambling to contact over 1,000 Gilroy voters who got ballots without a place to cast their vote in the Gavilan Community College trustee race.
That race has two candidates vying to be trustees for Gavilan Community College Area 4, but due to mapping issues when the college district's boundaries were formed, people in District 4 didn't get to vote on the correct trustee race, per the county.
According to the acting registrar of voters, the issue impacts close to 1,200 voters.
"As a result, about 1,200 voters who should've been in trustee area 4, which is a contest on the ballot, were not put into that contest," said Matt Moreles, the acting registrar of voters. "We are trying to recover. Even though it's close to the election, we are trying to send out ballots to the voters who are impacted. We're also making phone calls and emails out to impacted voters."
Many of those impacted have already mailed in their ballots, so the county is instructing them to head to a voting center in the next two days. Once there, voters will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot for just the Gavilan College District trustee race.
If a voter is unable to, their original ballot and votes for president, other races and issues will still count.
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