MEDINA: Nearly 300 early voters in Medina County will need to vote in the primary election a second time after receiving ballots that listed incorrect candidates in congressional races for their precincts.Board of Elections Director Carol Gurney explained Friday that when the boundary lines for the 7th and 16th districts were redrawn, the board was not properly informed how Medina County was affected and did not make appropriate changes to some ballots.Voters in 21 precincts covering Brunswick, Brunswick Hills, Guilford Township, Lafayette Township, Medina Township and the village of Seville who were given Republican, Democratic and Libertarian ballots had the wrong congressional candidates for their areas.On Friday, the elections board updated its computer system with the correct boundary lines to get the exact number of people affected. Gurney said 288 early voters got the wrong ballots. The affected voters in the northern part of the county received ballots with 16th Congressional District candidates and should have been voting in the 7th District. In the Guilford and Seville areas, the mistake was reversed.“The board is in the process of redoing the database for the election and setting up the correct ballots, which will be done by Wednesday,” Gurney said. “All of the voters affected by this redistricting issue will be notified by mail, and will be issued a new ballot to revote.”She said the preliminary letters were to be mailed Friday to make people aware of the problem.“We’ll be following up to make sure everybody can revote,” Gurney said.She said that if an affected voter does not cast a replacement ballot, the votes in the congressional races would be disregarded, but the votes in other races and issues still would be counted.The board of elections will be open for early voting through March 2. Anyone who goes to vote and lives in the affected areas will be asked to fill out an absentee application request to get a correct ballot.“This has been a challenge. But it’s much better to have found this out before Election Day than after Election Day,” Gurney said. “The voting population is small and manageable in early voting.“If this happened after the election, it would have been every person in that area voting incorrectly, which would have been much worse.”For information, go to www.boe.co.medina.oh.us/.Marilyn Miller can be reached at 330-996-3098 or mmiller@thebeaconjournal.com.