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20. IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: Provisional Ballots / Voter Incident Reporting

Received from Arizona Advocacy Network
Sunday, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:45 PM

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IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: Provisional Ballots / Voter Incident Reporting

Greetings!

Politicians have create such confusing rules to vote in our Democracy, not even the election workers can apply them equally for free, fair and accessible elections.

We want to provide some clarification for those who voted a provisional ballot and to those who need to follow-up with ID.

This may not apply to you but please share this information with others so those who need the details might get them in time. The deadline for voters who must provide ID is 5PM, Wednesday November 14th. Here we go...

If you voted any type of provisional ballot, you should have been given a receipt indicating whether or not you presented acceptable ID to establish your identity (not to be confused with confirming your address).

If 'NO' is indicated on the receipt, your ballot will be counted only on the condition that you present ID at specific locations by 5pm, Wednesday, November 14. You should have been told this, and you should have been given a list of acceptable ID to bring, plus a list of locations that will accept it.

If 'YES' is indicated on the receipt, you don't have to do anything. (In Maricopa County, if neither one is circled, we have been told it is counted as a Yes, and you don't have to do anything. For other counties, contact your recorder/elections dept. for their procedure.)

Click HERE for a list of acceptable IDs (applies in all counties): http://recorder.maricopa.gov/pdf/AcceptableID.pdf

List #1 now includes the Arizona medical marijuana card.

Maricopa County Elections Department told us that utility bills in electronic format, such as on a smart phone, are acceptable.

In Maricopa County: Click HERE for a list of locations that will accept ID by 5pm Wednesday: http://recorder.maricopa.gov/pdf/IDVerifSites.pdf

In Pima County: Go to a County Recorder's Office or call [phone] for alternate locations. More info HERE: http://www.recorder.pima.gov/default.aspx

For all counties, click HERE for contact info: http://azsos.gov/election/county.htm

Contact elections officials if you have any questions.

Next, we need to document PROBLEMS AT THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.
Voters who had an ID from List 1 with an address that didn't match in the signature roster should have voted a regular provisional ballot and the receipt marked 'Yes'. If a voter tried to use an electronic form of bills on List 2 via a smart phone or other device, it should have been accepted. We know these rules and others were not applied correctly at all polls on Election Day and we need voters to report these cases.

Please take time to fill out an incident report. We're compiling this information for use in possible litigation and legislation to protect voters and ensure our elections are free, fair and accessible. If you know of an incident where a voter had difficulty at the polls, please complete a voter incident report or get the voter to complete one.

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Arizonans deserve free, fair and accessible elections. Don't let politicians steal them by blocking voters with confusing and unnecessary election laws. Join us and fight back.

In unity,

Sam Wercinski
Executive Director
Arizona Advocacy Network and AZAN Foundation
1450 East Indian School Rd, #106, Phoenix, AZ 85014
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