[craig_eddy]

http://election.sos.state.oh.us/ProvBallots.htm

[GnL]

A lady on Rush yesterday said they couldn't find her registration in Ohio and had her complete a provisional ballot. That's one example. She's a Republican.

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR today.

Remember, only about 1 in 6 provisional ballots is legit. Most are thrown out.

[smiley]

Watching Fox News this morning they had a the Secretary of State from Ohio who stated that provisional ballots are provided when names do not appear on the registars because of incorrect entries on their registration or they have moved from that particular precinct. He also stated that mathematically, the Kerry camp really cannot come up with the numbers to have Kerry win Ohio. Later in the morning, Fox News via E.D. Hill called Ohio for Bush. Great Victory for democracy!! Next, Hillary...:)

[MassachusettsConservative]

Current projections of Provisional Ballots is 145,000 (or less). This means that 100% of those would need to be accepted and 100% would need to be for JfnK. GWB has been reelected!

[McGavin999]

I'm not from Ohio, but yesterday morning in Arizona a guy went to the polls to vote but they had him recorded as receiving a mail in ballot. He said he didn't have his mail in ballot and the poll worker asked him if he wanted to go home to get it and he claimed he lost it. He still insisted on voting. They gave him a provisional ballot.

One of the ladies in our office got married and forgot to change her registration, she voted on a provisional ballot (republican).

[TommyDale]

It was stated that approximately 140,000 ballots would be considered, including late absentee ballots (civilian AND military) and provisional. The Ohio Secretary of State said that possibly as many as 30,000 come from the Cleveland area. Assume only 25% are for President Bush (7,500) and should Kerry get 75% he would get the remaining votes (22,500).

Now let's assume the remaining 110,000 are split -- Kerry will try to claim most are Democratic, but in reality half will be the Evangelical Christians voting for Bush. They registered just as many voters as the Democrats in the final weeks. That would give each candidate 55,000 votes.

Net gain would only be 15,000 for Kerry, and NOT ENOUGH to change anything in Ohio!

[finnman69]

you also have to assume there will be some Moveon.org voters who spammed the numbers

[libbytarian]

I worked as a 'challenger' in Dayton Ohio. We had 402 total votes in my precinct and 20 of those were provisional. The area was inner city which tends to have more people moving around so almost all the provisional ballots were just because people had moved into the precinct. A few were just unexplained absense from the poll book.

My biggest problem was with the absentee ballots. We had a list of those who had gotten an absentee ballot and the procedure was to allow them to cast a 'regular' ballot after a call to the BOE to determine if they had voted. YET..many of the absentee ballots were not yet counted so these people could have voted twice and no one would know.

libby

[RightWingBev]

not a genius but these provisional ballots are if someone i believe said you didn't send me my absentee ballot but i requested one, or they went to the wrong place. however accourding to alot of sources only a slim amount are voted and
i did here moveon.org was picking up people in one state taking them to the polls and demanding these ballots that was on Fox this morning I think
KERRY IS LOSERMAN2 FIRST IT IS THE VETS, NOW IT IS THE WHOLE NATION HE WANTS TO SCREW