Reply #53: Good point about provisional ballotts

[Time for change]

The provisional ballots are noted in the poll book, the number accepted and the number rejected. Ron substracted the rejected provisional ballots from the total of provisional plus voted ballots, to come up with the pre-tabulator count. We assume that the post-tabulator (official) count includes the provisional ballots in it, which must be the case because the totals (plus the absentee ballots, which are counted separately) equal the total vote margin that Bush is officially credited with.