State: Absentee vote count 'will not be a problem' in elections

State: Absentee vote count 'will not be a problem' in elections By MAURICE TAMMAN maurice.tamman@heraldtribune.com With just days before elections, state officials were scrambling this week to determine whether they had a problem that could call into question tens of thousands of absentee votes. The problem surfaced in the state's newly minted central voter database, a multimillion-dollar project that is supposed to cleanse the voter rolls of errors and prevent voter fraud. The Herald-Tribune on Wednesday found thousands of mysterious entries in the tally of historic votes that suggested people had already voted in elections that haven't yet occurred. The revelation launched a furious review by state election officials who worried that the entries could make it appear as though legitimate voters were trying to vote twice. They now say that won't happen. "This is not a problem," division spokeswoman Jenny Nash said late Friday afternoon. "There will not be a problem." The local elections Tuesday will be the first real test of the centralized voter system since it was activated in January.

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