So if you had 5,000 provisional ballots come up and this ‘board’ has to reach some conclusion....wouldn’t this take at least a year to validate each and every ballot? I don’t see how you could validate these unless you just skipped the validating process and mostly just rubber-stamped them...?
“So if you had 5,000 provisional ballots come up and this ‘board’ has to reach some conclusion....wouldn’t this take at least a year to validate each and every ballot?”
I have never observed a canvassing board meeting so I can’t tell you first hand how it works in practice. I don’t think there are any restrictions on how many staff can provide backup information (signatures on record, addresses of provisional voters) to the principals.
If the board processed one provisional ballots per minute, it would take 83.3 work hours to process 5,000 ballots.
The principals on the canvassing board can have alternates but the alternates can’t be just “some clerk.”