Several Bay Area voters say they’ve received more than one ballot in the mail ahead of next week’s Midterm Elections.

It turns out that if you moved, changed any part of your address, or even updated it at the DMV, you may get a second ballot.

That was the case for some residents.

“Which is normal. That is part of the system,” said Shannon Bushey of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. “We keep records though, and each ballot has a unique ID number. And first ballot that we do receive back will be the one that is counted, the second or additional ballots will automatically be voided after that.”

If residents send in multiple ballots, California counties have systems designed to detect it.

Each ballot is scanned in a sorting machine and the information is captured and recorded.

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