Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Elections officials in a Florida county said several absentee ballots were returned to voters due to a design flaw in the envelopes. Lee County officials said the design flaw causes scanners at the post office to read the bar code for the return address instead of the recipient address, causing voters to get their ballots back in the mail, The Naples (Fla.) Daily News reported Thursday. Advertisement "We received a few calls yesterday," Lee County Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington said. "Out of (nearly) 40,000, that wasn't a whole bunch of them." Officials said Lee County postal workers are hand collecting the absentee ballots to ensure they make it in by the voting deadline of 7 p.m. Aug 24. The officials said the flaw will be corrected on ballots next year.
