KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — Kanawha County is recounting all early votes after a corrupted data stick impacted around 1,774 votes, according to the county commission.

“While processing early voting results, the Kanawha County Commission found that one data stick from early voting is corrupted,” the Kanwaha County Commission said. “We are going to run all the early voting ballots through the machine to verify all data sticks to the electronically generated paper ballots. The Kanawha County Commissioners and the County Clerk are ensuring the integrity of the Election and will make sure all votes are counted. We are doing this open to public.”

County officials say there was around 31,000 early votes in Kanawha County.