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Some ballots for advance voters in Maple Ridge-Mission were pre-marked for the B.C. Liberal candidate, in an apparent printing mix-up that Elections B.C. said it has under control.

The non-partisan independent elections agency said a “printing error” caused a small mark to appear inside the circle beside Liberal incumbent Marc Dalton’s name.

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“It was a technical misprint,” said Elections B.C. spokesperson Andrew Watson. “We identified it before voting started, and instructed our local folks to not issue any of those ballots.”

Nonetheless, the issue hit Twitter when one voter complained. Elections B.C. is not sure if any of the ballots were actually, mistakenly, given to voters, but so far has only received that one complaint, said Watson.

“It’s a known issue,” he said. “All the campaigns know about it, all our election officials know about it, if one was to slip through it’s really obvious that it’s a printing error.”