The Tasmanian Electoral Commission has sent out 149 failure to vote notices in error to people in the Braddon and Franklin electorates.
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The commission identified 20,000 people who had not been marked off the electoral roll at the March state election and notified them by letter they appeared to have not voted.
Recipients are required to either pay a fine, provide details of where they voted, or a reason as to why they did not vote.
Commissioner Andrew Hawkey said in reviewing some responses, it was uncovered that there was an error with names being crossed off at two polling places.
He said those votes would have been recorded.
“If you placed your ballot paper in the ballot box, there is no reason to believe that it was not included in the count,” he said.
"The errors identified had no impact on voting at the polling places, but were a result of a separate process.”
