A judge on Friday ordered a series of remedies to ensure thousands of Erie County voters are not disenfranchised by a string of mail ballot snafus that have left election officials and voters scrambling for answers just days before the Nov. 5 election.

An Erie judge on Friday ordered the county’s board of elections to remain open through the weekend after as many as 17,000 mail ballots may not have been delivered to voters who requested them and hundreds more received a ballot intended for someone else — a major issue caused by the mail ballot vendor and likely to cause vote-counting delays in a bellwether part of Northwestern Pennsylvania.

We learned new information on Friday as Election IQ, the company hired to print the ballots, missed the judge’s deadline to hand deliver all the missing ballots to the Erie County Board of Elections.