Reply #1: FL Paper 1/3: MOST PROVISIONAL VOTES REJECTED [View All]

Posted on Mon, Jan. 03, 2005

Most provisional votes rejected

Majority weren't registered in county they voted in

By Nancy Cook Lauer

DEMOCRAT CAPITOL BUREAU CHIEF

Counting the ballots

They're better odds than Lotto. Still, if you were one of 27,451 Florida voters forced to cast a provisional ballot in the 2004 election, chances are your vote didn't count.

Two-thirds of all provisional ballots submitted in the general election were rejected, according to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of reports provided by the state's 67 county supervisors of elections. Most ballots were thrown out because the voter was not registered in that county.

More than 11 percent of the ballots were tossed aside because the voter was in the wrong precinct.

Another 7.2 percent were cast out because the voter had been purged from the voting rolls, because either the voter hadn't voted lately or was deemed a felon. Most counties did not separate those two categories, but for the 20 counties that did, purged felons accounted for 4 percent and inactive voters accounted for 7.3 percent.

State law requires county supervisors to purge voters from the rolls if they haven't voted in the last two federal elections...


more: http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10551972.htm

Thanks to EMunster here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x226040