Go to Wrong Voting Place & Your Vote Will NOT Count (helping America to Vote!)
People who cast a provisional ballot at the wrong
precinct are not entitled to have their votes counted, the state
Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting an argument by labor unions that
the rule wrongly disenfranchises voters. In a unanimous ruling, the
court said the law clearly states that provisional ballots must be
counted only if the person was entitled to vote ``at the precinct,''
and that the constitution gives the Legislature the authority to
dictate voting rules. Under Florida law, if voters show up at a polling
place but officials there have no record they are registered, they are
given provisional ballots. Those ballots are then held until officials
determine if the persons were entitled to vote at that precinct and had
not already voted. If they should have been allowed to vote at that
precinct, the ballots count; if not, they are thrown out. But a group
of labor unions sued over the ballot law, saying it unconstitutionally
disenfranchised voters who may not know their polling place. They
argued that many people have new polling places because of
redistricting, may have moved, or may have been displaced by a
hurricane. [more ]
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