Election Watch Update # 2
Bob Fitrakis reports on the Ohio election state-of-play at 1pm on election day.
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A Democratic county poll worker has estimated that over the course of Election Day, one thousand registered voters will be forced to vote provisionally in a single predominantly African American precinct in Franklin County. Discrepancies between voter ID and information in the official database, possibly caused by the June changes to BMV registration software, may have disenfranchised up to three-fourths of the 35th ward's voters.

This is a staggering number of provisional ballots. So far at other polling sites, there are provisional ballots numbers of 21 or less.

“There were two and half times as many people on the provisional ballot line as on the lines to for regular voting,” said a Free Press Election Protection observer about the Driving Park polling place in south central Columbus.

Free Press Election Watch Report #1
Bob Fitrakis reports on a filing at the Federal District Court in Columbus, Ohio - 11 am, Election Day, 2012

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Attention OSU students:
A Franklin County Precinct Judge told an Election Protection observer this morning that Ohio State University supplied their students with a letter, that supposedly along with a student ID, allows them to vote. It essentially servers as a utility bill. If you read the directive that allows utility bills, it is a bit vague. So if a student at OSU has an Indiana driver’s license but it registered in Ohio, he/she should be able to present student ID plus this document from OSU. The precinct judge in Westerville is getting the identical letter from Otterbein, but he called SOS for a ruling because OSU is state school, and Otterbein is not. He had already allowed three students to vote regular ballot with this document and student ID.

Reporting from Election Protection Command Center: So far, we have not heard of any problems opening the polls. We have heard that people are showing up to vote at the Driving Park polling site with their voter cards from the Board of Elections, but their names did NOT show up on the voting rolls. Each one was made to vote provisionally.

Call 1-855-VOTING HELP (1-855-868-4644) if you experience any problems voting today.