Nearly 1,500 Republican primary election ballots in Pinal County were printed with erroneous information, officials announced Sunday.

On Saturday, a voter notified the Pinal County Recorder’s Office about receiving a ballot with incorrect information.

Officials looked into the matter and determined that printing errors occurred in the Republican precinct committeeman races for two precincts, 28 and 136. The information for all other races was correct.

Voters in those precincts are being sent replacement ballots with the correct information along with an explanation of the error. The erroneous ballots have been canceled in the system and cannot be tabulated.

Any voters with questions about their ballots should call the Pinal County Citizen Contact Center at 311 or 520-509-3555.

Who is to blame for errors on nearly 1,500 Pinal County ballots?

The county said errors were printed on 1,468 ballots because the vendor for the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office voter registration database pulled incorrect information.

The Secretary of State’s Office said in a statement Monday that while it maintains and helps operate the Arizona Voter Information Database, the counties are responsible for the accuracy of the data and their ballots.

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“The counties themselves are responsible for the data, its accuracy and deployment, verifying any information coming into or out of the system or sent to an individual county’s contracted mail processing vendor,” the statement said.

After Cochise and Yuma counties identified an issue with partisan precinct committee races while proofing ballots in May, the Secretary of State’s Office said it worked with its vendor on a code fix.

“This code fix was communicated to counties on May 27 in a regular ‘superuser’ meeting that all counties attend. Information about this issue was also communicated in subsequent emails,” the Secretary of State’s Office said.

“Additionally, after the May 27 meeting, SOS staff reached out directly by phone to all three counties impacted — Cochise, Yuma and Pinal — and advised them to make adjustments to their data to implement the code fix correction and double-check the accuracy of their ballots.”

Cochise and Yuma counties apparently made the code fix and took the necessary measures to ensure that the ballots they sent out were correct, “so the impact is limited to Pinal County,” the Secretary of State’s Office said.

Mail ballots for the July 21 primary were sent out Wednesday to voters who requested them or are on the Active Early Voting List.

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