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No, all you can see is that somebody claiming to be X voted at Precinct Y using Z method (in-person, absentee, provisional vote). You have to accept a vote whe
by masonic 9y ago
No, all you can see is that somebody claiming to be X voted at Precinct Y using Z method (in-person, absentee, provisional vote).
You have to accept a vote whether that voter appears on your roll or note (if unregistered, a provisional ballot is cast; it's generally not opened unless the sum total of provisionals can sway a race).
You can't challenge a signature for invalidity, and you can't pull that ballot even if it is later found to be invalid.
Even if a fraudulent vote was cast in the name of a real voter, and that real voter shows up later to vote (and has photo ID), his/her ballot turns into a provisional ballot, and the first-cast, bogus ballot is never retracted.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> You can't challenge a signature for invalidity In New York any poll worker can challenge a signature for validity. Those ballots are specially marked and subject to individualised scrutiny. This thread has got to have the highest-confidence totally-wrong assertions I’ve seen on Hacker News in a long time. > his/her ballot turns into a provisional ballot, and the first-cast, bogus ballot is never retracted What do you think happens to provisional ballots? They’re provisional because they’re specially handled. If a double vote occurs on a name, that’s certainly investigates (again, in New York).