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Utah beats most states in counting provisional ballots
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| Last Edited | User 215 Mar 28, 2005 10:49am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
| News Date | Monday, March 28, 2005 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If you voted a provisional ballot in Utah during last year's election, it had a good chance of being counted compared to similar ballots cast in other states.
Utah ranked 10th in the nation for counting 70 percent of the provisional ballots cast during the 2004 elections, according to Electionline.org, a nonpartisan clearinghouse for election-related information. One state, Delaware, counted only 6 percent of provisional ballots cast and 23 states counted less than half, the organization said.
Provisional ballots are offered to voters who do not appear on registration rolls on Election Day, but who are registered to vote in that county. The ballots are not counted unless the voter's registration can be verified and a voter must be able to produce photo identification and some type of proof, such as a utility bill, that he or she lives in the precinct.
Ohio - the November election's foremost battleground where provisional ballots appeared to matter the most - counted 78 percent of those cast, giving the state a 5th ranking nationwide. |
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