Do not mean to be grasping at straws, but please tell me what the Ohio provisional voters can do to make sure their votes are counted.
I don’t know how much they could really do to defend their vote after casting it – it’s really in the hands of the people who will be making the decisions (and it looks like there will be a lot of them, from both parties).
In the interest of getting a factual response (as much as possible), maybe someone with access to Ohio legislation could post excerpts from or links to relevant laws. From what I’ve heard so far, though, the guidelines for provisional ballots aren’t firmly established. The few states that had them last time accepted them in very different proportions; Ohio accepted around 90% of its provisional ballots in 2000.
I’m an Ohio voter and I saw people casting provisional ballots today. One woman had recently been married. Let’s say she goes to the polls and is still registered under her maiden name…Mary Smith. Her new name is Mary Jones ( who is not registered in the district). She brought a copy of her marriage certificate with her, showed ID, filled out some forms and gets a provisional ballot. She can’t go back later and try to vote as Mary Smith or that would be a reason to challenge the ballot.
I did see this scenario in my precinct