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Blurry barcodes delay Oregon House primary results

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

Oregon Democratic U.S. congressional candidate Jaime McLeod-Skinner speaks during an election watch party at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond, Ore., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Issues with counting ballots in Oregon's third-largest county could delay for days a definitive result in a key U.S. House primary where Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader was facing a strong challenge from a progressive candidate. Schrader was trailing Tuesday in early returns in the 5th District race against Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin via AP)

A voter drops off a ballot at a box in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May, 17, 2022. The state is holding its primary elections. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Election workers check ballots at elections offices in Clackamas County, Ore., the state's third most populous county south of Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May, 17, 2022. AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Workers check ballots at elections offices in Clackamas County, Oregon, the state's third most populous county south of Portland, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Many ballots in the county were printed with blurry barcodes, preventing them from being read by voting tabulation machines. Workers, one Democrat and one Republican per pair, are re-recording votes from the blurred ballots on new ballots so they can be read. The problem may cause significant delays in vote-counting in a county that includes parts of two Congressional districts, including one with a competitive Democratic primary. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

FILE - Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., speaks during a news conference in Washington, on July 24, 2019. Schrader is a candidate in the Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 5th District Democratic U.S. House primary election in Oregon. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2018 photo, Jamie McLeod-Skinner poses in Redmond, Ore. McLeod-Skinner is a candidate in the Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 5th District Democratic U.S. House primary election in Oregon. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Cars navigate a busy street in Clackamas County, Oregon festooned with election signs for Congressional, Senate and governor's candidates on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Clackamas County is home to Portland's southern suburbs and its rural-urban demographic mix is considered key in determining whether seven-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader will survive a tough primary challenge from a progressive Democratic candidate, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Blurry barcodes delay Oregon House primary results