SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine election officials say voter turnout has exceeded expectations, but you don’t have to tell that to the city clerk in South Portland.

The heaver-than-expected turnout led to a shortage of ballots and City Clerk Susan Mooney had to send more than a thousand photocopied ballots to polling places.

That means more work for counters.

Mooney tells the Portland Press Herald that the photocopied ballots are official, but they cannot be read by voting machines. That means they’ll have to be counted by hand.

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