Summit County residents show up to cast their early votes to find that they’d already voted, when they actually hadn’t. Not a good surprise.

Salt Lake Tribune has the latest on this.

An apparent computer glitch informed poll workers that ballots couldn’t be provided to several would-be voters at the Park City Library. The problem has been corrected, said Summit County Chief Deputy Clerk Ryan Cowley. Nobody was turned away without voting, he said. And each vote will be counted. But Park City resident Mary Cook said she became concerned when poll workers told her she couldn’t vote again. When she insisted the computer was in error, poll workers advised her to cast a paper provisional ballot. Such ballots are not counted election night but later when they are determined to be legitimate. Provisional ballots also must include name, address and identification information. Cook, however, said poll workers apparently didn’t know that when telling the frustrated voters how to cast provisional ballots. Without the identification information, ballots would not be valid. “I wouldn’t want people to think it’s voter fraud,” she said. “It suggests to me a training gap. It’s a systemic issue with equipment and training.” In the end, Cook said she filled out a provisional ballot. Other voters, she noted, insisted on casting computer ballots.

It makes you wonder if they cancelled the first vote that these residents hadn’t made…