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The county's canvassing board rejects three of them, one because a voter registered too late.
By AMY WIMMER SCHWARB
Published November 5, 2004
INVERNESS - Of the five provisional ballots cast Tuesday at Citrus polls, two were deemed valid by the canvassing board.
Provisional ballots are available for people who show up at the polls but are not on thepoll workers' list of precinct voters. Those ballots are cast, and the canvassing board - made up of Supervisor of Elections Susan Gill, county Judge Mark Yerman and county Commissioner Jim Fowler - determines whether the ballots can be counted.
One of the two that were counted belonged to a voter who had moved but had not updated his or her address. In the other case, Escambia County had informed Citrus that the voter had registered there and should be removed from Citrus rolls. But the voter moved often, and his or her most recent voter registration was in Citrus, so the vote counted.
Three provisional ballots were rejected. In one case, Citrus elections officials determined the voter's most recent voter registration was in Polk County.
In a second case, elections officials looked for the voter by name, birth date and address, but they could not find evidence that he or she was registered to vote in Citrus. In the third rejected provisional ballot, the voter registered Oct. 8, four days after the deadline for registering to vote in Tuesday's presidential election.
The elections office is still receiving some absentee ballots that must be counted. Overseas absentee ballots that were postmarked by Tuesday and received at the elections office by Nov. 12 must be included as part of the final count.
The Citrus elections office is awaiting those ballots from 26 voters, said Tammy Smith, voter education coordinator at the Supervisor of Elections Office.
Amy Wimmer Schwarb can be reached at 860-7305 or wimmer@sptimes.com
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