Stormy Daniels
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All I know is that it all sounds incredibly shady whether it's legal or not. That's exactly what I'm talking about.
How can it sound "shady" when you don't even know what is being discussed in the first place?
The issue here is whether to count a provisional ballot cast by an individual, if that individual had cast a mail in ballot that ended up getting rejected because it wasn't submitted correctly.
Imagine you cast a mail in ballot. But after you submit the ballot by mail, you realize that you forgot to include the privacy envelope that it's required to have. You know that this will likely result in the ballot being rejected. So, to play it safe you go to the polling place on election day. Of course, since you already were granted a mail-in ballot, the polling place will only allow you to cast a provisional ballot. This is normal procedure all across the country.
When the ballots are counted, and they get to the provisional ballots, they're going to check each provisional against the reason it was cast that way. So when they get to yours, they're going to first check whether a mail-in ballot was received and accepted on your behalf. If your mail-in ballot was accepted, the provision ballot will be rejected. If, on the other hand, no mail-in ballot was received, or if the mail-in ballot was rejected because it lacked the privacy envelope, then your provisional ballot will be counted.
That's all that's happening, here.