By Noah Dawson

Update February 29th 3:30 pm: Potter County has issued a statement responding to the situation, linked here. Original story follows:

With early voting nearly over in the March 5th primary election, we have been receiving viewer questions about the integrity of the election. In response to these questions, our team poured over the data and found anomalies with the received mail-in ballot roster in Potter County.

According to the mail-in ballot roster, the county has received multiple ballots from two individual voters in the Republican Party primary. In one instance, the roster indicates a ballot was received from a particular voter on February 14th. The roster then lists the county as having received another ballot from the same voter on February 22nd.

The anomalies appear to be confined to mail-in ballots. We checked for issues of voters voting in the primaries of both parties, voters voting multiple times in person, and voters voting both in person and by mail. As of writing, no such anomalies have been found. The issues also don’t appear to have affected Randall County, where we found no anomalies.

According to Potter County, as of the close of voting on February 28th, over 3,800 votes had been cast in the Republican & Democratic primaries, including over 500 mail-in ballots received. This means that the mail-in ballot anomalies only account for a tiny fraction of ballots received so far.

This isn’t the first time the county has faced issues with its elections. In the 2022 general election, when some voters cast votes for Republican State Supreme Court Justice Evan Young, their printed record contained the name of a different candidate who had run in the primary election earlier that year.

Early voting ends March 1st. Primary Election Day is March 5th.