Count Ohio’s Votes: Court Must Reject Ohio Provisional Ballot Rules

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2012.  Ohio election officials must count all provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct due to poll-worker error, the Brennan Center for Justice argued in an amicus brief submitted Friday.

Voters are entitled to cast a provisional ballot if their name does not appear on the voter registration list in their precinct on Election Day. Those ballots are later counted if the voters’ information is verified. But Ohio law rejects provisional…