clerical error

Anne Tindall, a special counsel for nonpartisan watchdog Protect Democracy who leads their work in North Carolina, said Griffin's effort is also punishing voters for what is, in many cases, the state's clerical error.

Election workers in the two counties involved, Collin and Travis, said those voter registration applications should not have been processed because the applicants identified themselves as noncitizens and both people were added to the rolls through clerical error.

The petition was postponed in July after a clerical error delayed Shiloh’s hearing.

The Times found that Calvert failed to disclose the purchase of an automotive repair center in Corona that he acquired in 2016, an omission that his office described as a clerical error.

Eventually, the officer explained to Puckett’s friend that there probably was a clerical error regarding his plates that needed to be cleared up with the DMV promptly, according to the footage.