Editor's note: News13's Adrianna Lawrence will have full coverage in tonight's 11 p.m. newscast HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -- An Horry County Council member took to his Facebook page this week with an apology to constituents who "may have been offended" by the distribution of 'I Voted' stickers printed in Spanish at an early voting site in Aynor. "I can understand a mistake being made in another state, but not here!" Al Allen, a Republican elected to serve the county's northern reaches, posted on Oct. 25. "I would like to know 'who' authorized and paid for this. It wasn't Horry County and I apologize to my constituents who may have been offended by this, because I was, when it was brought to my attention!" Sandy Martin, the county's elections chief, said the Spanish version stickers were given out accidentally and won't be available moving forward. She told News13 the early voting site in Carolina Forest also might have been given the 'Yo Voté' stickers. "The state provided these stickers, we did not request them," Martin said. "An employee did not realize we had multiple kinds of stickers now and gave the site the wrong roll. It was an honest mistake." Martin explained why Horry County voters will only have a single sticker at their disposal come Election Day.  "Poll workers are going to be so busy on election day we didn’t want them having to decide which sticker to give out. We left it standardized for the whole county. Everyone will get our original 'I Voted' sticker," she said. News13 reached out to Allen and every other member of the county council for comment starting Tuesday afternoon. State Election Commission spokesman John Michael Catalano told News13 on Tuesday that the Spanish stickers are a new addition to this year's options. "The SEC provides stickers to all counties for each election year but it's up to the county to decide which stickers they want to use," he said in an email. "Some counties use the ones distributed by the SEC and some buy their own stickers." Between fall 2023 and this past winter, the commission doled out three million stickers split evenly between the traditional 'I Voted' slogan and one featuring a palmetto tree outline. For this summer's primary and the upcoming general election, officials made available 3.53 million stickers -- 785,000 of the traditional ones, 785,000 palmetto tree outlined, 785,000 Spanish version, 785,000 'future voter' version and 396,000 "I registered" ones that aren't distributed on Election Day. Allen's remarks brought mixed reaction from followers, including people who agreed with his frustrations. "Heads should roll over this," one person wrote. "Not happy with my state!" another said. But not everyone agreed with Allen's position. "With all that is going on in this country we are getting in an uproar over stickers printed in Spanish. It’s a shame. Our ancestors came from somewhere else at some point and spoke languages. Many of us were blessed to be born here. Many are here and came legally and English is their second language," a commenter said. "I don’t see a problem with this. The problem is hate and unfortunately hate seems to be the problem with most of the crazy in our country right now. It’s disappointing seeing this posted by you." As of July 1, 2023, Hispanics or Latinos comprised 7.3% of Horry County's total estimated population of 397,478, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. Statewide, they account for 7.5% of all residents.