Franklin County, Ohio–the location of Columbus, the state capital and largest city–mailed out 50,000 inaccurate requested absentee ballots, the Associated Press reports. The mistake was caught by election officials, who promised new ballots would be mailed within 72 hours.
About 20% of people who requested absentee ballots receive the wrong ballots, an error caused by a worker who changed a setting on a mailing machine. Some voters received ballots with incorrect information about a congressional race, while other received ballots for the wrong district.
The incorrect ballots were sent to about 6% of the registered voters in the county.
State election officials said checks are in place to ensure that each voter can submit only one ballot, and that the incorrect ballots would be invalidated if returned. Additionally, absentee ballots are rejected if someone votes in person.
The state received an unprecedented 2.1 million absentee ballot requests this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. While Donald Trump has railed against mail-in balloting, these ballots were requested by voters and would not meet the criteria for his claims of vote fraud.