More than 2,000 faulty mail-in ballots missing the option to vote for president in the 2020 election were accidentally sent to voters in Los Angeles County, reports The Los Angeles Times.
“While this has impacted a very small number of Los Angeles County voters … we nevertheless apologize to those affected by the mistake,” Michael Sanchez, a spokesman for the county clerk’s office, told the Times.
Mail-in voting has been a source of contention in the 2020 elections. Trump has pushed the method as a recipe for fraud, while Democrats contend it’s a perfect alternative to in-person voting during a pandemic.
“Mail ballots, they cheat,” Trump said at the White House last Tuesday. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases. They have to vote. They should have voter ID, by the way.”
The surge in mail-in voting is sure to make this election one of the most complicated in U.S. history.
Sanchez of the L.A. county clerk’s office said his office was in the process “of alerting all affected voters in this precinct of the error by robocall and email, and tomorrow morning we will be mailing out new, corrected ballots with a letter describing the error.”
Solange Reyner ✉
Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.
© 2026 Newsmax. All rights reserved.