Posted on 10/23/2004 5:01:34 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court on Saturday reversed a lower court's ruling that Ohio voters could cast provisional ballots on Election Day anywhere in the county in which they are registered.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a provisional ballot cast outside a voter's home precinct isn't valid, agreeing with Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Federal law allows people to get provisional ballots if they are in the right jurisdiction. Blackwell, a Republican, defines that as a precinct, while Democrats say it's the voter's county.
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Good move. The courts have no place
Thank you
This is great news.
However, some judge did the same thing to Michigan voters, I believe. Are those voters under this same appeals court?
Did Michigan appeal to prevent this as well?
I can't post a new topic for some reason.
Can someone report on this please?
Problems with Ohio Ballot?
http://www5.wright-weather.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&postid=334464#post334464
Anyone else commented on this subject?
A provisional ballot is placed in a special envelope notating it as a provisional ballot. There are check boxes on the outside of the envelope.
The check boxes tell why the ballot was cast as provisional. Two of the check boxes are "No Voter ID" and "Wrong precinct, refused to go to correct one"
If one of those two boxes is checked, the ballot is not counted when the ballot boxes are emptied. So the provisional ballot is not like the others....it can be easily identified.
By the time the officials had finished manually scrutinizing voter lists, some of which might be handwritten, the election would be long over and the Democrats would have stolen the election using voters registered multiple times and voting both in person and by absentee ballot. And the Democrat winners would prevent any kind of prosecution of these criminals.
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