Reply #20: More Washington Ballots – In Alaska

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Saturday, December 25, 2004
More Washington Ballots – In Alaska
Posted by James Joyner at 08:14

98 ballots end up where? (Seattle Times)

Alaska's elections director said yesterday she has 98 uncounted ballots from Washington's Nov. 2 election and would like to send them back here. Dino Rossi's campaign wants to see them. Washington officials say the ballots were cast as provisional ballots by people who said they were Alaska residents, and then the votes were sent north. Provisional ballots are given to voters on Election Day when they go to polling places other than their own, or their names don't appear in lists of registered voters. Washington, with one of the country's most liberal provisional-ballot laws, sends ballots to the voter's home state in hopes they can be counted in the presidential election, said Washington's director of elections, Nick Handy. "I actually had a number of calls from election directors from around the country that said, 'Why am I getting provisional ballots from Washington?' " Handy said.

Link:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/8549