From Goerie.com by Mathew Rink

After the polls closed on Nov. 5, poll workers at Kury Hall in Millcreek Township suspected that something was amiss.

Like all poll workers at the county’s 149 precincts, they were responsible for inserting a device called a PEB that records the votes from a flash drive on each machine and “closes out” the machine so that no additional votes can be recorded.

When the PEB generated the results at Millcreek’s 4th Precinct, though, poll workers suspected that it had shown too few votes.

“They had some sense that their number of total votes wasn’t correct,” Erie County Clerk Doug Smith said. “But they thought it would all come out in the wash. They didn’t think it was a serious thing and that we would catch it when we did the audit.”

What followed was a perfect storm, Smith said, of poor communication between poll workers themselves and between poll workers and elections officials stationed at the Erie County Courthouse.

It would result in roughly 400 votes not being tabulated on either Election Night or during the final audit, or count, conducted by elections officials days later.

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