If people are not prosecuted in a very public way, the behavior will not change. Provisional ballots are a danger to democracy because they can be abused to easily. If they are not being abused, why are half being proven invalid?
This concluding paragraph from the article I excerpt above says it all:
Partisan lawyers watched the vote counting process closely on Wednesday.
"Provisional voting is to ensure that voters can cast their ballots in a new legal environment," said Jim Noel, a Democratic lawyer. "It's to make sure people aren't disenfranchised. . . I'm talking about people who are entitled to vote— eligible voters."
A Republican lawyer says the majority of "garden variety" provisional ballots often are invalidated.
"Typically the vast majority of them are bounced," said Joe Thompson, a Republican lawyer. "It's a very, very high standard, and the invalidation rate of those is well over 50 percent by any analysis."
Normal rules don't apply in the fiefdom of NM.
Richardson will make the votes happen for JFK.