By Jessica Karins | Daily Reporter
GREENFIELD — The Indiana State Voter Registration System reported inaccurate vote totals for some Hancock County races after Tuesday’s primary election. Most notably, the incorrect tally resulted in the state system showing the wrong winner in the District 1 county commissioner race.
Incumbent John Jessup won the seat by 144 votes, but the state site displayed his opponent, Jeannine Gray, as the winner.
Hancock County Clerk Lisa Lofgreen emphasized that the results displayed at the county annex on election night, and posted on the Daily Reporter’s website, were the correct totals.
The error, she said, resulted from a technological problem in transmitting the results to the state. It occurred because some candidates’ names were on the ballot multiple times. Like several other candidates, Jessup and Gray were both also candidates for delegate to the Indiana Republican Party State Convention.
Lofgreen said Wednesday afternoon the state site was in the process of updating Hancock County vote totals.
Though Indiana State Voter Registration System is the official state source for election results, its tallies are considered preliminary and may contain errors until the results are officially certified by each county. The Hancock County Election Board will certify results June 12.
