Advocacy: Letters Urging Ohio Counties to Ensure All Valid Provisional Ballots are Counted
The Brennan Center submitted letters to election officials in several Ohio Counties urging them to take steps to ensure that provisional ballots are not rejected due to inflexible and unreliable exact-match verification procedures. Such procedures routinely identify registered voters as unregistered, and can lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters because of minor typos by election officials.
The Brennan Center submitted letters to election officials in several Ohio Counties (listed below), urging them to take steps to ensure that provisional ballots are not rejected due to inflexible and unreliable exact-match verification procedures. Such procedures routinely identify registered voters as unregistered, and can lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters because of minor typos by election officials.