But Weber County’s cure letter this election had an erroneous deadline by which affected residents had to take that action. Instead of Nov. 18 by 5 p.m., it listed Nov. 12, as seen online at weberelections.com.

“We messed up,” said longtime Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch. “I let all the people who requested our cure letters list know of the change and sent out an email Friday morning to those voters who still haven’t cured their ballots,” alerting them to Monday’s deadline.

The canvass of the final vote count is scheduled to be released Tuesday during the 10 a.m. Weber County Commission meeting, and Hatch is confident that his staff will have no problem being ready for that canvass.

“We have teams set for Monday, which is going to be another very busy day. It’s usually very small amounts of people who will cure at that last minute,” Hatch said.

As of early Friday morning, there were still 1,127 ballots that needed to have envelope signatures “cured” or clarified.

Weber’s election staff discovered the clerical oversight earlier this week, Hatch said, noting that “our team has been going 100 miles an hour since September. We just missed it. The only good thing is that we missed it that way and not the other way of giving too late of a deadline.”

Hatch said he knew of no other irregularities in the voting process, describing 2024’s general election as “good but super-busy.”

“We had 86% turnout — a little lower than 2020 when it was 89%,” Hatch said.