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from today's Huffington Post:
Over 220,000 provisional ballots have already been already been discounted in the presidential primaries this year, according to a survey by The Huffington Post, with many thousands more likely to be tossed as states finish certifying their primaries.

Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002 after the disaster that was the 2000 presidential election. That legislation created “provisional ballots” (they are sometimes referred to as “affidavit” or “challenge” ballots) to act as a backup in case a poll worker cannot immediately establish a voter’s eligibility.

To determine how many people’s ballots didn’t count this year, HuffPost asked nearly every state that held a presidential primary this cycle how many provisional ballots were cast and how many of those provisional ballots were ultimately counted. Some states partially count ballots cast outside of the voter’s precinct by counting selections for state and federal offices, but not local races.
HuffPost got statewide data from 23 of the states that held primaries this year, plus data from Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa; data from Kansas, whose GOP caucus weirdly issues provisional ballots — caucuses don’t typically involve ballots; and data from New York City, where the chaotic Democratic presidential primary resulted in an unusually high number of provisional ballots submitted and rejected. (Public affairs officials with the New York State Board of Elections ignored repeated emails and calls from HuffPost.)

The legislation that created provisional ballots has little guidance on what to do with the actual votes, so our survey could not be entirely comprehensive. Some states don’t collect provisional ballot data at the statewide level, so this survey does not include data from five states that redirected us to their counties: Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee and West Virginia. It is too soon to know how many provisional ballots were cast in states that held primaries in the last month, so it does not include data from Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and the District of Columbia. In the nation’s most populous state, California, tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of provisional ballots have yet to be counted.
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