Situation number 3 is the most frustrating for the voter. You are listed as an absentee voter but you don’t have a ballot with you. You can vote a provisional ballot. We don’t know whether you already mailed it in, or what. So we let you enter your ballot, we write all your details on the outside of the envelope, and it goes to the board of elections for adjudication. It will not go through a scanner today. If the board of elections determines that you’re eligible and your absentee ballot has not been returned by mail, they open the envelope and count your vote. If they have received your mailed-in ballot AND this provisional, I don’t know what they do.
A lot of people want the satisfaction of seeing the ballot they voted go into the scanner. They know it is counted. But if you registered absentee, the only way to vote in person and go through the scanner today is to bring in the ballot we mailed you and surrender it. I have seen voters go home and get their ballot so they could surrender it and vote in person.
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Paco Hope
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