Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted adds a step for voters who will cast provisional ballots on Tuesd

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37. In the interest of fairness

The article has at least one mistake--provisional ballots in Ohio are most likely to be because the voter requested an absentee ballot they didn't send in or they do not have ID that matches the name and/or address in the signature book--not because they are in the wrong voting place. BY LAW you must be in the proper polling precinct according to your current address for the vote to count.

Also, the current provisional ballot envelope is much simpler than the previous one. The idea behind having the voter write down their ID (usually the last four digits of their SS#) is to take the poll worker errors out of the mix--there have been too many provisional ballots rejected because the poll worker messed up the envelope.

And before anyone flames me--yes, Husted has not been on the side of the voter in most of his decisions, he shows every indication of wanting to suppress Democratic votes in favor of Republican votes. However, I don't think all of his decisions have been partisan. I also think Ohio needs a better Secretary of State.