The county started processing the first batches of the 118,000 ballots - about 48,000 ballots spread over 2,700 batches - with no errors. But, when the county started pushing through the second round of batches - about 3,200 batches with up to 25 ballots each - workers noticed a glitch. Those batches, Sorenson said, would not push through because the software showed adjudication was still needed - even though that had already happened. "Absentee ballots are filled out by hand, and if a ballot is marked clearly, it will run through the scanner without a problem. If there’s a problem with how the ballot was filled out – for example, a voter placed a check mark instead of filling in the circle, didn’t completely fill in the circle, or voted for more candidates than allowed in a race – the scanning software will send the ballot to the adjudication module," he said in an explanation. Because the ballots had already gone through a prior adjudication process - or the process of resolving flagged ballots - Sorenson said the elections board voted to go ahead and push the ballots through, with the understanding that some ballots would have to be re-adjudicated.