Let me make this abundantly clear, no one ran out of BALLOTS. There were Emergency Ballots which can be ran through the tabulator the only difference is it is filled in by pen and not printed from a printer. Every polling ward received 100 of these. Then the provisional ballots are given in an over abundance for use when the voter and or circumstances around the vote need to be reviewed. These are all fixed with a ballot number and a unique ballot receipt that corresponds with the ballot. There are instructions on how to check the status of the ballot on the ballot receipt. Anyone who couldn't vote chose not to because they wanted to use the printer to mark their choice rather than a pen.

On the other side, Luzerne County should be ashamed of itself and how their ineptitude has added another layer of doubt to an already skeptical public. The lady who runs the Election Bureau needs to be fired( she already is an elected official for the county seat city government who should not have been allowed to serve both positions as per the law), an investigation as to who knew what and when needs to be done by the state and the results need to have some type of future checks and balances that should be done and made public BEFORE the next election. Things like make the amount of backup paper each machine receives be made standard and double checked before and on election day. Make sure the phone number for the bureau is always answered by a person especially on election day even if it means putting callers in a queue. Make sure the voicemail system can always take voicemails!! I've heard from a good source that the voicemail was full the weeks leading up to election day and on election day leaving callers to have to continuously call back until an understaffed and under paid office employee answered.