The Lane County Elections Office has resumed processing ballots and will have updated results by 5:00 p.m. today.
Yesterday, ballot sorting equipment at the Lane County Elections Office stopped working due to a clog in an inkjet line that prints the date and time a ballot is sorted onto the return envelopes. The issue paused ballot processing for several hours on November 4.
“Our sorting equipment is older and that may have contributed to yesterday’s issue,” said County Clerk Tommy Gong. “We’ve been able to resume processing ballots and if you watch our livestream today you’ll see lots of activity in the office this afternoon. It’s important voters know there have been no issues with our counting machines and we are confident we’ll be able to count every vote accurately and efficiently.”
To resume processing ballots, the decision was made to suspend the printed time and date stamps on the return envelopes. Each ballot return envelope also has a unique barcode that is scanned by the sorting equipment and it logs the time and date electronically.
An updated results reporting schedule is available online. All results are unofficial until certification on November 25, 2026.
More information about ballot processing and election security is available at www.LaneCountyOR.gov/ElectionSecurity.
About the Lane County Elections Office:
The Elections Office, located at 275 W. 10th Avenue in Eugene, is responsible for conducting elections in Lane County. The Elections Office manages voter registration, the processing of mail ballots, recruitment and training of election workers, and certification of elections.