I was a precinct election official yesterday.  In the
12 years I have been serving in my own precinct, I
have never seen an election with so many provisional
ballots.  We had 414 ordinary ballots, and 27
provisional ballots. Also, 28 voters came by just to
turn in absentee ballots.

If my precinct is typical, that means that a number of
ballots equal to 14% of the precinct votes haven't
been processed yet.  Those two types of ballots can't
be processed until the signatures on the outer
envelopes have been checked, which will take weeks. 
So any estimates of turnout should factor that in.

The reason for so many provisional ballots, was that
great numbers of people who re-registered at the Dept.
of Motor Vehicles, suffered the fate of not having
that re-registration get recorded.  Virtually all the
people who weren't listed on the roster, but said they
should be, said they had re-registered at the Dept. of
Motor Vehicles.

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