Clackamas County Nears End Of Ballot Counting Process

OREGON CITY, OR — Two weeks after the May 17 primary election, Clackamas County election officials said that they are almost done counting the ballots. The process was delayed because around 90,000 ballots had been printed with a blurry bar code that made them impossible for the voting machines to read them.

That forced the county to manually count the ballots.

Clackamas County Clerk Sherry Hall has been heavily criticized for a lack of preparation for having to count the ballots manually.

The county said last week that they only expected around 211 people would show over the holiday weekend to assist in the counting process. On Tuesday, Hall's office said that more than 400 people arrived to help count.

County officials said that they expect to be done finished counting and will be able to meet the deadline of June 13 to have all the votes certified.