What about the provisional votes in Indiana?

[greiner3]

A million voters were denied the right to cast ballots in IN Tuesday. Those that did attempt to vote were given provisional ballots to

fill out. Different states have different rules when and if these provisional ballots will be counted. Again I ask, What about the

provisional ballots?

[onenote]

1. Link?

[mamalone]

2. Wondering the same thing here...

If it was as close as they are now saying.. .87%, then the provisionals really need to be counted!

[onenote]

6. link to the .87 margin?

[Boz]

9. Fox News site has it listed as 50.89 to 49.11

http://www.foxnews.com/

[rucky]

3. How'd we get from 11,000 to a million?

a Million?!

[Boz]

4. Provisional versus absentee

there were 11,000 Absentee.

Indiana purged 1 million from the roles recently, any of those people would get a Provisional ballot to be verified and counted later.

Not 1 million but likely to be in the 10s of thousands and predominantly African American as that was the complaint when they made the purge, that it was skewed.

[onenote]

5. any substantiation as to how many provisionals?

I haven't seen anything and suggestions that it would be in the tens of thousands are just speculation.

[Boz]

8. Nothing solid, extrapolation from earlier reports, but statistically

Indiana officials announced earlier in the week when they did the purge that it would be 12-15 % of the million purged

[rucky]

7. Gotcha. Found an article that estimates 13% + 90K

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2740&Itemid=113

[greiner3]

10. Thanks for the link;

For those 'lucky' enough to have run that bureaucratic maze to get workable IDs and vote with provisional ballots, when will they be counted?

[greiner3]

11. I got this link from IN.gov;

About provisional voting, however, it does not speak when and if the provisional votes would be counted;

http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title3/ar11/ch8.html

I guess my point is that regardless how many provisional votes were cast, most everyone agrees that the vast majority would be Obama supporters.

[Boz]

12. Provisionals are usualy counted within 48-72 hours as a standard.

But the fact that they counted absentee already, which are also in those time periods, says it could be anytime.