Here in Ohio, each provisional ballot cast is in a sealed envelope in a pouch on the election box that is sealed. The envelope has the voter ID information on. The ballot inside is a normal ballot. In my precinct we rarely had more than two provisional ballots cast. Typically it was because of a name change or a person who moved into our precinct from somewhere else in Ohio and hadn’t updated their information. We always made sure everyone voted. There was always a bunch of voters who came to our precinct when they should be at another precinct. We would give them the option to go to the right precinct with directions, or to vote a provisional ballot. They usually left. That was when I was a polling location manager. Now they have these poll pads and voters can checkin and vote at any precinct in the county. In theory.
So far as custody goes. We always had 4 people at each precinct (2-R’s and 2-D’s). Anytime we needed to go near a voting machine, we had one R and one D go (opening, closing, or voter having issues). We had checklists for everything, and once we had everything bagged, zipped up, and tie wrapped, we transported the materials to the board of elections in personal cars with one R and one D at a minimum in the vehicle. At the board of elections they would inventory everything before we were free to leave.
My question is where are the R’s at these polling locations, in the cars, and at the board of elections?
Thanks for the info on Ohio’s voter system. I just called my county Board of Elections, and asked them about provisional votes, and surprisingly, they don’t even do them in New York State. They only do absentee, and affidavit which is for people who haven’t voted before, or haven’t voted in a long time. They don’t do provisional ballots for people who show up at the wrong polling place.