July 13th, 2018 by WCBC Radio

The number of Maryland voters who would have been affected by a computer glitch at the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has been revised downwards from 83,493 to 71,981.

In a hearing before two Maryland legislative committees, MVA Administrator Christine Nizer apologized for what she said was a coding error that led to the failure of changes to voter registrations being routed to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

The problem was made public days before the June 26 primary, and the State Board of Elections estimates that about 4,000 to 6,000 of the provisional ballots that were cast during the election may have been affected by the computer failure.