New lawsuit RE: Provisionals in OH

[pointsoflight]

CLEVELAND - A watchdog group sued Friday to try to stop Cuyahoga County's elections board from rejecting thousands of provisional ballots until they are hand checked against voter registration cards.

People for the American Way Foundation said the board wrongly relied only on computerized registration records, which are compiled from the cards and could contain errors such as misspellings.

Provisional ballots are cast when voters say they are properly registered but precinct workers can't find their names on their registration lists.

Two-thirds of the 24,472 provisional ballots cast in Cuyahoga County were later found to be valid, but the other 8,099 were thrown out, mostly because the people who cast them were not found on the county's computerized records.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20041126/ap_on_re_us/provisional_ballots_ohio

[life_long_dem]

1. Thanks for the info.

I wonder if Diebold software is used for the county's computerized records also.

[masshole1979]

2. when did people for american way get involved?