This article points out that Ohio is expected to have more provisional ballots cast this year than any state except California. It always takes any state weeks to count provisional ballots. Provisional ballots can’t be tallied until election administrators first determine whether the provisional ballot is valid, and that is time-consuming. Vote-counting is always slow to be completed in California, Washington, and Oregon, but the story emphasizes that it will also be slow in Ohio this year. Ohio’s slow count is more newsworthy because polls show that Ohio is very close, whereas the other slow states all considered safe for President Obama. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
The slowness of the count in California, Washington, and Oregon may create the initial impression that Romney has won the popular vote, while Ohio hangs in the balance.
How many EVIL MORONS are there now in the U.S.A. ???
Morons are too lazy to register to vote 28 or more days before a general election ???
How about TOTAL chaos if recounts are demanded in Ohio — with SCOTUS doing its stuff as in Florida in 2000 ???
I.E. provisional ballots are one more E-V-I-L scheme by communists (aka liberals, socialists, progressives) to subvert elections in the U.S.A.