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Article: Paper ballots cause confusion
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2006
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PROVO -- Poll workers in Utah County mistakenly denied paper
ballots to angry registered voters on Election Day because the
workers weren't properly prepared for the possibility of a glitch in
the state's new electronic voting system.
Confusion between paper ballots and provisional ballots
exacerbated the problems in some instances.
A provisional ballot and a paper ballot are the same document,
but ballots cast under the definition "provisional" are put in
special envelopes with lengthy forms on the front that must be
filled out by the voter. After the election, county officials
investigate the information on the front of the envelope to
determine if the voter was properly registered but ...