The Centre County Elections Office was working early Wednesday morning to resolve a software issue that slowed the reporting of voting results from mail-in ballots for the 2024 election.
Election and IT staff confirmed data is being successfully exported from mail ballot scanners, but is not being recognized by elections software when uploaded, according to a statement from the county at about 12:30 a.m.
The county is “working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems—the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded—compatible with one another,” according to the statement.
“We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State,” County Administrator John Franek Jr. said.
All ballots, including mail-in ballots, received by the county have been scanned.
In a second update sent at 1:30 a.m., the county said tabulation of mail-in ballots is complete, but “the results cannot be placed in report form at this time.”
Further updates were not expected until later Wednesday morning.
