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Officials describe heavy provisional and write‑in workload; polling worker urges secure handling of provisional envelopes
Summary
County elections staff described processing 1,282 provisional ballots (1,246 counted) and nearly 5,000 write‑ins that increased adjudication time; a polling worker urged using a lockbox for provisional envelopes and staff agreed to consider the change.
County elections staff told the Iron County Commission that post‑election processing this cycle required significant time and follow‑up because of provisional ballots and an unusually large number of write‑ins.
Unidentified Speaker 3, who presented the canvass statistics, said 1,282 provisional ballots were issued and that 1,246 of those were counted after follow‑up; 30 provisionals were not counted, including three that were duplicate votes and two that lacked sufficient identification. He said 532 of the provisionals resulted from…
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