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Posted on 01/03/2005 1:42:29 PM PST by finnman69
2/3s of Fla. Provisional Ballots Rejected
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Nearly two-thirds of the provisional ballots cast in Florida on Election Day were not counted, mostly because the voters were not registered, officials said Monday.
County elections officials said 27,742 provisional ballots were cast and 9,915 were counted, but 17,827 were rejected. The numbers may be revised but are not expected to change dramatically, officials said.
"The majority of the ones that were rejected were because the people were not registered to vote," said Jenny Nash, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State.
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.....and 93% were dead voters who came back to life to vote for Kerry
Provisionals are such a terrible opportunity for the dims to manufacture votes.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
Slowly, very slowly, the noose is tightening around democrap voting strategies.
What is the point of provisional ballots anyway? If you're not registered to vote, you're not registered to vote. The dems shouldn't be allowed to go out and round up unregistered people to vote for them so that they can whine and sue for months after an election when the votes shouldn't have been cast at all.
Further proof of disenfranchisement, blah blah blah, republicans are evil, blah blah blah...
Because government agencies have been known to make mistakes, and individuals should have a chance to make a case whether or not that's so in their instance.
And don't forget LIAR LIAR LIAR CREEPY LIAR!!
Ok. It just seems like it was started with an eye toward creating areas for challenge. It seems like it opens the door for far more problems than it solves.
If your not smart enough to register before the election your not smart enough to vote. Is it really that difficult?
Just apply that percentage in Washington State and I wonder who wins????
Yea, but if all had been accepted 17,000 legitimate voters would have been "disenfranchised"
Government agencies DO make mistakes.
You made that up.
The point of a provisional ballot in reality is to prevent a major scene at the polling place.
You shut them up and make them leave rather than fight.
Are additional reasons required?
This represents a MASSIVE disenfranchisement of blacks!! Many/most of the provisional voters were black Cubans, Jamaicans and Haitians just trying to pick up a couple of honest dollars by voting as often as possible on and before the 11/2 election. These tactics were successful in Washington State with white voters but failed in Florida with black voters! Racism? Let's ask Jesse Jackson!
I voted via provisional ballot this year. This was because I was listed on the voter rolls as a "permanent absentee voter", but had changed residences and the registrar of voters did not have my new address, and I had neglected to update my address for them, or "re-register" to vote anew at my new address. Of course, I had forgotten that I had ever signed up to be a permanent absentee voter, or that I hadn't voted since being at my new address, so I figured everything was kosher :-) (Since I knew I *was* registered and had been told that if I had continuously voted in prior elections, no need to re-register...)
The problem was that, I imagine, an absentee ballot was sent to my old address. Thus, when I arrived at my polling place, they had my name listed but it said they'd sent me a ballot. If they let me vote normally this risks letting me vote twice (since for all they know I might have sent in the absentee ballot; indeed they should assume as much). Thus, I was given a provisional ballot which would be counted once it was made certain that I hadn't voted absentee. Now, if the resident at my old address stole my ballot and voted with it, then that's a different problem. :-) But assuming that didn't happen, then my vote was perfectly valid and there was a perfectly good reason for them to give me a provisional ballot instead of a regular one. (Or let me use the electronic voting machine, in my precinct's case.)
If so many provisional ballots were rejected in Florida, that says to me two things, one depressing, one encouraging:
1. A lot of people were trying to vote who should not have been. (Double-residences, already-voted, felon, whatever...)
2. Florida was pretty good at catching the unlawful ballots and doing the right thing by not counting them.
All in all, sounds ok to me.
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