RE: provisional ballot in wrong polling place? WELL DUH!

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see how provisional ballot rules should be interpreted to grant any
voter some right to vote in someone else's precinct.  This is a recipe for
laziness, sloppiness, error, and deteriorated election quality.

If the voter goes to his proper polling location for the precinct he belongs
to, and the Election Division books have the voter's precinct wrong, then
the full provisional ballot should be voted and counted.  I haven't heard or
read anyone suggest this shouldn't or won't be the case (other than the
aforesaid rumormongering that implied it).

You may be mistakenly thinking of absentee balloting, in which anyone can
vote anywhere, any time.  I understand the fondness for such lush
convenience but I have no sympathy for it.  What some see as the comparable
fault of the provisional ballot, I see as a virtue.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:23 PM
> To: pklammer@xxxxxxx
> Cc: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx; 
> 'Mcgrath, Bob___PAIC_Mkt'
> Subject: Re: provisional ballot in wrong polling place? WELL DUH!
> 
> 
> 
> I thought the whole point of Provisional Ballots was specifically to 
> allow people to vote IF they show up at the wrong location or don't 
> have proper ID. The DRE vendors who hype the ability of their 
> machines 
> to bring up any ballot style for any provisional voters 
> certainly seem 
> to think that's an advantage of their systems in complying with the 
> rules.
> 
> I can understand why voting rights activists would be concerned about 
> any rule that violates a core premise of the purpose of the 
> provisional 
> ballot.
> 
> Also, since the Federal offices (senate and house) should be 
> covered by 
> federal election rules, I don't understand how the SoS can 
> (yet again) 
> create her own set of rules that violate the law.
> 
> Joe
> 
>