The voting precinct at Rippon Middle School in Woodbridge closed for about an hour on Election Day.
- Election officials received a batch of misprinted ballots that had the same ballot information printed on each side.
- Officials closed the precinct about mid-afternoon, turned voters away, and then went to Staples office supply store to print new ballots.
- Once in hand, they reopened the polling place.
The misprinted ballots affected three voting precincts in Woodbridge.
- The incorrect ballots were found first at Leesylvania Elementary School, and later at River Oaks Elementary School — both in Woodbridge.
- Officials at those schools ran to a copier machine to make print new ballots.
That, however, wasn’t an option at Rippon.
- “There wasn’t any leagal-sized paper available,” Prince William County Board of Elections Secretary Keith Scarborough told me.
- All ballots cast at all three polling places on Tuesday will count, adds Scarborough.
