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Voters and poll workers tell Middlesex elections board provisional ballots and reconciliation processes need fixes
Summary
Multiple public commenters described provisional-ballot procedures and reconciliations that led to a lost provisional ballot and urged the board to restore two-hour tally checks, per-table provisional accountability, and better training to prevent future losses.
Public commenters at the Middlesex County Board of Elections meeting urged procedural changes after reporting problems with provisional ballots and local reconciliation practices.
Sharon Hoverman, speaking for Sam Blake, said she reviewed vote records from the last November election and found voters from an adjacent municipality cast votes in the wrong location. She also described an incident at one polling place when ‘‘they closed the election and the person was still voting inside the machine. And when they came out, they're like wait a minute the provisional ballot box is closed. Because they didn't communicate to each other that there was someone still voting. So we lost a provisional ballot of that person who was in the machine because the…
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