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This May 26, 2020, file photo shows an Official Democratic General Primary mail-in ballot and secrecy envelope, for the Pennsylvania primary in Pittsburgh.
Associated Press
Voters' poorly marked ovals could lead to contested ballots

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY place and cast absentee ballots mal circumstances, but President pecially in battleground states like
Associated Press for the first time. Voters marking Donald Trump has repeatedly Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsyl-
ATLANTA (AP) — Two decades ago, ballots from home could lead to questioned the integrity of mail-in vania.
Florida's hanging chads became an increase in the kinds of mistakes voting, and his campaign has al- "This could be 2000's hanging chad
an unlikely symbol of a disputed that typically would be caught by ready challenged aspects of it in in Pennsylvania," said Suzanne Al-
presidential election. This year, the a scanner or election worker at the court. meida, interim director of the state
issue could be poorly marked ovals polls. While ballots subject to review chapter of the nonpartisan watch-
or boxes. Experts say that's likely to mean have historically represented a tiny dog Common Cause.
Amid the global coronavirus pan- more ballots with questionable portion of overall ballots, it's possi-
demic, more people than ever are marks requiring review. That's not ble disputes could arise and end Continued on Page 2
expected to bypass their polling necessarily a bad thing under nor- up as part of a Florida-like fight, es-