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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 5/6/2009 |
Provisional ballots |
MS |
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Lincoln County, Brookhaven. At Ward Three, during the morning, before the errors in the registration database were called to their attention, poll workers did not inform voters who were not on the rolls that they could vote a provisional ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Burlington County. Poll workers accidentally closed the AVC Advantage electronic voting machines at the start of the day. The article says that voters were given provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
VA |
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Thousands of voters in Virginia found themselves stuck in long lines today because of broken machines and inadequate polling site resources. To help move things along, some of them were reportedly given provisional ballots -- but voting by provisional ballot significantly lowers the chance their vote will be counted.
Story
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| 11/2/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
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A third of New Jersey's counties are asking newly registered voters to cast provisional ballots on Election Day because they aren't included in the official poll books, and the counties don't want to issue supplemental lists of registered voters.
Story
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| 10/24/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Lee County. Poll workers told a woman that she could only vote a provisional ballot since an absentee ballot had been sent to her home in Connecticut, but she had not requested an absentee ballot and did not receive it. Her husband was allowed to vote. A poll worker told her "this had been happening to other people, too."
Story
Archive |
| 4/22/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Many reports of voters who switched parties and whose names did not appear on the rolls of the new party. In some instances, voters whose names were missing were not being offered provisional ballots.
Story
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| 2/12/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
MD |
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Across the state, polls stayed open 1.5 hours late because voters were struggling with the winter weather. However, the ballots cast after 8:00 will be provisional ballots, and will not be counted until next Tuesday.
Story
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| 2/6/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
CA |
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Santa Clara County. At least two precincts ran out of provisional ballots. "In 37 years of volunteering at polls, on-duty volunteer Betty Britton said she couldn't recall another year when provisional ballots ran out."
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
Diebold |
Cuyahoga County. Candice Hoke, director of Cleveland State’s Center for Election Integrity, said some of her public monitors reported that poll workers were incorrectly requiring some voters who used paper ballots to fill out a provisional voter form. Voting results for any of those forms won’t be counted until the official count begins 11 days after the election.
Story
Archive |
| 1/7/2005 |
Provisional ballots |
WA |
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King County. 348 provisional ballots were mistakenly run through the poll-site voting machines without verification
Story |
| 11/24/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
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Cuhoga County. 8,099 provisional ballots (about 1/3 of those cast) have been ruled invalid because the voter wasn't registered or was registered in the wrong precinct. In 2000, about 17% were ruled invalid.
Story |
| 11/20/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
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Stark County (Canton). The Election Board reluctantly followed the law and rejected provisional ballots cast at the wrong precinct in the right polling place. Up until this year, they remade a ballot that was cast in the wrong precinct, meaning that the person?s vote would be put toward the appropriate races in the correct precinct.
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
CA |
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Alameda County. Students at Berkeley were given provisional ballots when they chose the option for paper mandated by the Secretary of State. In one precinct nearly half the ballots were provisional.
Story |
| 11/16/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
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Of the 11 counties that have completed checking ballots, 81 percent, or 4,277 out of 5,310 ballots, are valid, according to a survey Monday by The Associated Press. Most of the counties are in rural areas.
Story
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| 11/14/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
CO |
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Denver improperly rejected some provisional ballots cast during the primary. Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
WA |
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Washington state Democrats, sued election officials Friday in the state's largest county. The lawsuit would block election officials in King County, home to Seattle, from discarding about 900 provisional ballots. [Note: they won the suit.]
Story
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| 11/11/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
AL |
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Counties handled the provisional ballots in a variety of different ways. The statewide result: Thousands of people who voted a provisional ballot didn't get a say in the election. An Associated Press survey of 59 of Alabama's 67 counties showed officials accepting only 1,836 of 6,560 provisional votes, or about 28 percent.
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| 11/11/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
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Cuyahoga County. A new ruling about counting provisional ballots was instituted on November 9 at 2:30 pm. The new ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow packets must be Rejected if there is no date of birth on the packet. The Free Press obtained copies of the original "Provisional Verification Procedure" from Cuyahoga County which stated "Date of birth is not mandatory and should not reject a provisional ballot." The original procedure required the voter?s name, address and a signature that matched the signature in the county?s database. One of the clerks said, "This is new. This just came down. They just changed it in the last thirty minutes."
Story
11/12 -- Counties that were confused about whether to validate provisional ballots that don't have voters' dates of birth on them were told Friday by the secretary of state's office in a conference call to allow those ballots.
Story
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| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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The vast majority of provisional ballots -- voters' last chance to have their voices heard -- were rejected. The majority of rejected ballots were cast by people who simply were not registered to vote. Other reasons: voting in the wrong precinct, signatures that didn't match those on file at the elections office and lapsed registrations because voters hadn't responded to address-verification requests and hadn't voted in at least four years.
Story
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| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
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Bedminster Township. Election law requires that provisional ballots be placed in sealed bags at the polling places and brought by election workers to the county. But provisional ballots from seven of the township's nine voting districts were found to be in unsealed bags. James B. Ventantonio, attorney for the Democrats, challenged the votes on the basis of the bags not being sealed. This prompted the election commissioners to keep separate tallies of the ballots from the sealed and unsealed bags, in case a judge invalidates ballots from the unsealed bags.
Story |
| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NM |
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A Republican presiding judge in one particular precinct was in charge of several hundred bad ballots. The problem, County Clerk Mary Herrera said, was that the bad ballots, with affidavits inside, were largely Democrats. The good ones were for Republican voters."It made us kind of sick," Herrera said. "It was too obvious.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Wake County (Raleigh). Reviewing and counting 15,000 may cause the county to miss the deadline for reporting totals. 75,000 ballots were cast statewide.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Elections officials approved 1,790 of Durham's 2,820 provisional ballots cast, or 63 percent. More than 1,000 ballots were rejected mainly because there was no record that the people had registered to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NM |
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Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrerasays roughly 25 percent of the provisional ballots in Bernalillo County have been rejected as invalid.
Story |
| 11/7/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Broward County accepted on 2428 provisional ballots out of a "ton" of them. In many cases, clerks at the polling places gave provisional ballots to people who could have voted regularly, deputy registrar Salas said. She thinks many clerks had trouble with last names of voters with compound names -- they simply couldn't find their names in the precinct registers, even though they were there.
Story |
| 11/3/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
MD |
Diebold |
Some people had trouble getting provisional ballots, including a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, until state elections officials intervened.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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A small number of voters who went to the wrong precinct in Pompano Beach, Fla., were given provisional ballots, which the county acknowledged was a mistake. In Florida, provisional ballots must be cast in a voter's exact precinct.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
LA |
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Problems with Election Systems & Software (ES&S) iVotronic machines occurred in Louisiana after officials improperly formatted ballots so that systems labeled nonprovisional ballots as provisional, and vice versa.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NY |
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At the State University of New York at Albany, some students found their names no longer on voter-registration rolls, though they had voted at the same location in the past. They were given provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
PA |
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Allegheny County. Dozens of precincts ran out -- or ran low on provisional ballots -- this afternoon. Voters were turned away.
Story
Archive
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| 10/20/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
AR |
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Pulaski County. Remote sites for early voting in Pulaski County do not have provisional ballots, so voters whose ballots are challenged have no way to vote.
Story |
| 10/19/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Florida voters can't use provisional ballots except in their home precincts, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday. Secretary of State Glenda Hood applauded the decision because it will help ensure an orderly election. Story
90 polling places were destroyed by the hurricanes. Story
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