Provisional ballots are not counted until after the election.

They are set aside and inspected by Democratic and Republican board employees to ensure they are valid. More than 100,000 provisional votes were cast in the 2000 election - or about 2 percent of the total vote in the presidential election in which President Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore by 3.6 percentage points in Ohio.

Provisional ballots are meant to ensure that people are not disenfranchised because of administrative errors or because they moved.
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Judge Carr agreed. If the law on provisional voting, he wrote, "saves but a single vote, its purposes will have been accomplished, and its adoption justified."

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