Riverside County Sheriff’s Sergeant Narciso and Deputy Carter receive the sealed ballot boxes from Gem Ann Garner at the Lake Riverside Estates voting precinct in 2020. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo
Approximately 5,000 duplicate ballots were erroneously mailed to some voters in Riverside County in the areas of Canyon Lake, Menifee, Murrieta, Wildomar and Winchester. However, Anza, Aguanga and the other mountain communities are not affected, according to the County of Riverside Registrar of Voters office.A computer system error mistakenly generated duplicate mailing files for 5,000 voters. By the time the computer system error was identified, the ballot packets were already delivered to the U.S. Postal Service.“It is important to note that none of the duplicate ballots will result in a voter being able to cast more than one ballot,” Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer said in a press release Monday, Oct. 17. “I take election integrity seriously and apologize for the incon
