A ballot printing error in Clackamas County, the third-most-populous county in Oregon, is delaying results of a key congressional primary race in the state.
Thousands of ballots with blurry barcodes have stalled vote counting in the primary for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, where seven-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader is facing a stiff challenge from progressive candidate Jamie McLeod-Skinner.
As of May 18, Schrader was trailing in the vote count in a neck-and-neck race.
Of the 95,000 ballots that were returned by May 18, about 60 percent were rejected by the scanning machines, Clackamas County elections clerk Sherry Hall told The Associated Press.
On the night of the May 17 primary, the county had reported the results from just 10,356 ballots. Hall said she expects the tally to be completed by June 13, the last day to certify election results according to Oregon law….