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Related: About this forumNearly 1000 voters forced to vote provisional in a single Franklin county precinct
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4791by Gerry Bello and Nicole Ware
November 6, 2012
A Democratic county poll worker has estimated that over the course of Election Day, one thousand registered voters will be forced to vote provisionally in a single predominantly African American precinct in Franklin County. Discrepancies between voter ID and information in the official database, possibly caused by the June changes to BMV registration software, may have disenfranchised up to three-fourths of the 35th ward's voters.
This is a staggering number of provisional ballots. So far at other polling sites, there are provisional ballots numbers of 21 or less.
There were two and half times as many people on the provisional ballot line as on the lines to for regular voting, said a Free Press Election Protection observer about the Driving Park polling place in south central Columbus.
Voting by provisional ballot carries a much higher chance a person's vote will not be counted. Provisional ballots are not counted until November 17th. The Secretary of State's office was recently embroiled in a court dispute over the acceptance criteria of provisional ballots. The possibility exists that the same criteria that cause a voter to be forced to vote provisionally could also cause that same provisional ballot to be discarded.
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Nearly 1000 voters forced to vote provisional in a single Franklin county precinct (Original Post)
flamingdem
Nov 2012
OP
If they are suppose to be legally registered then their vote will count, if you can only vote provis
cecilfirefox
Nov 2012
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LisaL
(44,973 posts)1. Franklin-another strong democratic county. Figures.
I guess BMV software didn't affect republican counties.
hockeynut57
(230 posts)2. lots of provisional ballots in allen co. too nt
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)3. Not until November 17th?
Why do we have to wait so long.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)5. Basically, the truthful answer is -Not ever....
Just ask John Kerry...l
Provisional Ballot in OH = No Ballot at All
Faith9326
(304 posts)4. Yup, I live in Franklin county
They sent absentee ballots to every registered voter(or something like this), including me. Now if you requested an absentee ballot, but it didn't come in time/or you just changed your mind(so you had to vote ON election day).......It will count as a provisional ballot.
Problem is, this has happened to a lot of people here. Their absentee ballots didn't come in time, so they are voting on election day.
cecilfirefox
(784 posts)6. If they are suppose to be legally registered then their vote will count, if you can only vote provis
ional, then do it.
lastlib
(23,251 posts)7. what state is this? nt
Columbus Free Press
(141 posts)8. Ohio
watch in happen here:
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)9. Glad that this is on video and that they don't have to wait in line again!
It's so ridiculous to cause these hassles
genna
(1,945 posts)10. Philly is having the same problem