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Voters line up outside a polling place in South Annville Township Tuesday morning.

(Barbara Miller/PennLive)

A voting machine calibration issue in Lebanon County that had some straight Republican votes being registered as straight Democratic votes has been fixed, county Election Director Michael Anderson said Tuesday morning.



Five out of the county's 270 voting machines are known to have been affected, he said. The problem was quickly reported and repaired and there is no indication that anyone's votes were incorrectly logged, Anderson said.

Similar problems have been reported in Perry and Cumberland counties and in Butler County in western Pennsylvania.



Anderson said the issue was that voters who cast blanket votes for a straight GOP ticket had their votes listed as being for a straight Democratic slate. The voters saw the errors when they reviewed their ballots before officially filing them. The buttons for the straight GOP and straight Democratic ballots are next to each other.



Voters were questioned about the problem and none reported that their votes were incorrectly logged, Anderson said. He said the issue affected machines at polls at Myerstown, Annville west, East Hanover and at the poll in the building his office occupies.