Baltimore Decertification Saga. Too many provisional ballots counted as valid
The discrepancy between the number of voters and number of ballots appears to have occurred because voters or election judges scanned provisional ballots at polling places, rather than setting them aside to be reviewed later, Maryland Election Administrator Linda H. Lamone said.
That review is important because anyone who asks for a provisional ballot is given one, whether or not they are eligible to vote. Officials are not supposed to include provisional ballots in the vote count until eligibility is confirmed.
State officials, with help from election workers from other counties, will go through the city's paper records to try to determine how many provisional ballots were counted improperly.
Lamone said the process will involve tallying the number of receipts for voters who checked in at each precinct and the number of provisional ballot applications filled out. Those figures will then be compared with the number of ballots counted on Election Day and the number of provisional ballots reviewed the week after the primary.
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So ineligible votes were counted as eligible. It won't mean much, but, considering the demographics of the typical provisional ballot voter, this means Hillary's lead in Baltimore should have probably been slightly larger than certified.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-election-problems-20160513-story.html
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