Group Sues Over Review of Provisional Ballots
A watchdog group filed a federal lawsuit in Cleveland to try to stop Cuyahoga County’s elections board from rejecting thousands of provisional ballots until they were hand-checked against voter registration cards.
People for the American Way Foundation said the board wrongly relied only on computerized registration records, which were compiled from the cards and could contain errors such as misspellings.
Provisional ballots are cast when voters say they are properly registered but precinct workers can’t find their names on the voter registration lists.
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