If an election is near, the subject must be provisional ballots - Beacon-Journal editorial
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Earlier this month, a federal appeals court rightly ruled that provisional ballots cast in the correct polling location but wrong precinct due to poll worker error must be counted. Voter advocates then sought to expand the protection to include provisional ballots cast in the same circumstances in entirely wrong polling locations.
Algenon Marbley, the federal district court judge whose right-place/wrong-precinct ruling was unsuccessfully appealed by the state, held last week that the principle applied broadly: Voters who arrive at the wrong location due to poll worker error deserve to have their ballots counted, too.
Ideally, such questions would have been settled long ago, avoiding last-minute complications. In correctly protecting voters, Marbley’s ruling would test poll workers, although Republican claims that it would encourage a “vote anywhere” mentality seem overblown. Voters always could be directed to the local board of elections.
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Read on, at the very excellent Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.ohio.com/editorial/editorials/when-poll-workers-err-1.345635
