The Serious Flaw With Ohios Plan To Count Provisional Ballots

Lakhota · Nov 6, 2012

Thousands of Ohio voters have been falsely notified that they are not registered to vote due to a database error in Ohios voter rolls. An Ohio voter advocacy group alerted Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) to this major system problem on October 30. But instead of fixing it, Husted issued a directive instructing local boards to use the same flawed search method to count provisional ballots after Election Day.

Ohios computer search of the voter registration database will only find exact matches, meaning that voters could come up as unregistered due to typos, abbreviations, or partial entries. This flawed search mechanism missed huge numbers of registered voters in Franklin and Cuyahoga Counties, incorrectly rejecting 33,000 requests for absentee ballots. These two counties corrected the error, but thousands of others may have slipped through the cracks in the rest of the state. These voters were told they are not registered to vote and may be forced to use provisional ballots at the polls.

But if they do decide to file provisional ballots, along with a growing number of other legal voters in the state, the very same search method could disenfranchise their vote entirely. Husted has ignored warnings that the system is missing large numbers of registered voters. As the Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates, who first discovered the problem, explain:
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ccravens · Nov 6, 2012

Don't you get it? Noone is listening.

You've been proven a liar before; any comments you make are largely disregarded.

Like this: I'm out.

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Conservative · Nov 6, 2012

Not even called yet, and the butthurt is strong in Shitting Bull

Meathead · Nov 6, 2012

Whinging on all four cylinders tonight I see. Obviously no Obama landslide, maybe no Obama victory?

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