Reply #7: Very poorly written! [View All]

[Bill Bored]

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Tubbs Jones questioned Blackwell about a telephone message delivered to thousands of voters just before the election to make sure they voted in the correct precinct, especially if they had not changed their registration and needed a provisional ballot. Tubbs Jones wondered why he didn't say in the message that voters had the option to use provisional ballots at their local boards of elections.
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Very poorly written! Did voters have to be at the right precinct for their provisional ballot to count, or not? A local BOE is NOT a precinct or even a polling place. This guy makes STJ sound like a moron.

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Blackwell said, "It worked," several times, his voice rising as Tubbs Jones continued the question. Ohio ranked fourth nationwide in the number of provisional ballots that were validated. Ten days before the election, a judge upheld Blackwell's directive that voters must cast provisional ballots in the correct precinct.
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And this paragraph makes Blackwell sound like a genius!

The question about precisely how to get your provisional ballot counted remains unanswered. If Tubbs-Jones was right, and the ballots could have been submitted to the county BOE, regardless of one's correct precinct, and have been counted correctly, she's got an excellent point about Blackwell not advertising this still little-known fact. But you can't tell from reading this what the rules were and it makes it sound like the _only_ way to have the vote counted was at the correct precinct and that Blackwell was merely interpreting the law.

The author of this piece is either uninformed, biased, or needs to take some writing lessons.

And where the fuck are the EDITORS?