Provisional Ballots are the new Hanging Chads

and the provisional ballots DO let you check in to vote at the wrong place, that is kind of the point of their existence. they are given to voters who do not appear on the approved list of registered voters at that precinct. there are several reasons that people may not appear on this list at the correct polling place-newly registered voters' names may not appear, a name may be identical to one on the felon list and so stricken incorrectly from the list, etc. so it isn't as simple as if you are at the wrong place, you will know.

do they have muliple polling precincts in the same building? I don't understand.

I'd rather not go back to Mississippi pre-1965, thank you.

I don't want to exclude anyone or turn anyone away. But I think that anyone who is not inclined to vote without being pushed into it, probably won't make an informed choice anyway.* I would love to educate people so that they are self-motivated to vote.

(*however, in this election, I'm all for busloads of uninformed voters voting against Bush.)

Anyway, I'm really speaking more about congress, judges, local representatives ... President gets plenty of coverage & most people probably have some kind of semi-informed opinion, right or wrong.

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I'd rather vote for candidates who will make our education system better than impose an intelligence standard for voting.
I'd like to think that the former will result in the latter not being necessary.