Precinct workers in Tulsa County mistakenly allowed two people to each vote twice, resulting in the contested and missing ballots in the House District 71 race, a state Election Board investigation found. The investigation results were presented to the state Election Board Tuesday night at the state Capitol. Democrat Dan Arthrell defeated Republican Katie Henke by a single vote. However, the election results already have been nullified by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and the candidate to hold the state House Seat representing Tulsa will be determined in the November elections. “We certainly don’t want to see things like this happen,” Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said. “But we’ve certainly learned a lot.”
Oklahoma implemented a new election system at the beginning of 2012 that still uses paper ballots but has new scanning devices and a website that displays results for all 77 counties, almost in real time. In the elections since the machines were first implemented there has been the botched recount in April, and in last week’s primary elections, a software glitch resulted in inaccurate election results being posted online for about 90 minutes.
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