Do all states have provisional ballots? That has to end.
“Do all states have provisional ballots?”
I would think they’d have to, since there are legitimate reasons for them. For instance, a woman gets married and changes her name and never thinks to contact the Elections Office. She is who she is, and is registered to vote, but the last name doesn’t match. We called them “Challenged Ballots”.
The way they’re handled normally is highly regimented and there’s no reason that some just pop up here and there at random times. We had LOCKED metal ballot boxes for all ballots at each polling place. One locked box was just for Challenged Ballots. (There should be no reason for provisional ballots to be anywhere but the polling place.)
All locked metal boxes were immediately taken to the Counting Center when the polls closed. The number of boxes had to match the number that precinct was given. The Elections Supervisor unlocked the boxes, and the ballots were batched and run immediately.
It was all done behind huge windows and anybody would watch.
It’s not hard. Snipes is despicable, and a criminal. That’s all there is to it.