However in 2004 there are more restrictions to "accept" a provisional ballot and this will lead to more disqualification. For example AP has news story two or three days ago where they said that In Cuyahoga county (Cleveland), the election board there did the first batch of 2667 ballots and 917 of them were disqualified and this amount to 35% of the total first batch. I do not know if this % of disqualification will increase or decrease for the remaining 24000 provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County.
Also the Toledo Blade has a story two days ago where they reported that in the first batch of provisional ballot in the county where Toledo is located , 45% of the provisional ballots were disqualified in this first batch. Again I do not know if this % of disqualification will increase or decrease for the remaining provisional ballots in this county.
I understand that more provisional ballots are being disqualified under HAVA, which is a new federal statute that governs such things. Wasn't the rejection rate for provisional ballots in New Mexico as high as 50%?
Do you have a link for this? That's interesting news.