California election officials cope with ballot glitches and vote count challenges as election draws to a close

"I am feeling pretty good. Every bit of our operation has gone very smoothly," Natalie Adona, the registrar of voters in Nevada County, said Monday morning, despite having to buy a jeweler's loop to see the flea-sized ink specks spoiling as many as 10% of mailed ballots. She called it "an annoyance." The printing glitch, called overspray, also marred as many as half of the mailed ballots collected by Monday in Shasta County. Such garden variety mishaps are common, and not expected to derail California's election process."},{

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