WARREN — The Trumbull County Board of Elections decided not to pursue criminal investigations against 41 people who voted twice during the November election, determining they were confused about the process rather than doing it with malicious intent.

The board voted 4-0 Tuesday to not forward the cases to the sheriff’s office.

In the election, 16 people voted at the board’s early voting center and then by mail, and 25 more voted either at the center or by mail and then went to their polling locations to vote again.

All of the double votes were detected, said Stephanie Penrose, board director.

“It was more confusion than trying to vote twice,” she said.

Board Chairman Mark Alberini added the board doesn’t “have any strong evidence or indications this was an attempt at fraudulent voting.”

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