Judge Issues New Rules For Absentee Ballot Signature Match Issues In Georgia

[KCDebbie]

19. I disagree. By encouraging voters to settle for casting Provisional ballots,

we may in fact be encouraging them to cast votes that will eventually NOT be counted...

From http://www.ncsl.org/…/elections-an…/provisional-ballots.aspx - it says:

In nearly all of the states, after being cast, the provisional ballot is kept separate from other ballots until after the election. A determination is then made as to whether the voter was eligible to vote, and therefore whether the ballot is to be counted. Generally, a board of elections or local election officials will investigate the provisional ballots within days of the election. Since this is an additional administrative step, a large number of provisional ballots can increase costs for jurisdictions.

Pay attention to that last sentence: A LARGE NUMBER OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS CAN INCREASE COSTS FOR JURISDICTIONS - this means that a jurisdiction will be incentivized to throw out a large number of provisional ballots if it is determined that it will cost too much to properly investigate each ballot in the time allotted!