If ballots with unmarked selections are included, the number of spoiled ballots is about 4,000. That is about 1.8 percent of the city's total, compared with a national average of 2 percent, D.C. officials said. Finally, the city encountered a six-hour vote tabulation delay after polls closed later than scheduled. They were supposed to close at 8 p.m., but because long lines of voters kept precincts operating, the first trucks did not return ballots to the city's central counting station until 10 p.m. Voters will mark their ballots with a No. 2 pencil and feed them into an optical scanner.
Officials expect errors and tabulation time to decrease.
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