Voting a Provisional Ballot  (2008)

• Give voter Provisional Voting Instructions and Provisional Ballot Envelope
  • Instruct voter NOT to detach top section from envelope
• Ask voter to complete and sign top section of envelope (Registration/Update form)
• Help voter select exception reason in bottom section of envelope
• Ask voter to complete and sign bottom section of envelope
• For primary election, complete Primary Only box [right side of bottom section]
• Verify voter has completed all required fields, including signatures, in both sections

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• Use laptop to look up voter's residence address, as written on top section of envelope
• Determine precinct number and ballot style for voter's residence address
• Write precinct number of residence address on bottom section of envelope [bottom left]
• Write ballot style actually issued on bottom section of envelope [bottom middle]
• Sign bottom section of envelope [bottom right]

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• Write voter's name, address, and issued ballot style on Provisional Poll Book entry
• Place first label on Provisional Poll Book entry for voter [right side -- PIN Label]
• Place second label on provisional envelope [top right of bottom section -- PIN Label]
• Place third label on Voter Call-in Instruction form
• Write Provisional Poll Book Number for voter on envelope [top left of bottom section]
• Write your precinct number on Precinct line of envelope [top right of bottom section]
• Get appropriate ballot from Ballot Table
• Write voter's residence address precinct number (per laptop) on ballot [top left]
• Double check that you and voter have filled in all required (color-highlighted) fields

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• Fold ballot, insert it in envelope, and hand envelope to voter
• Instruct voter:
  • Mark ballot with BIC pen -- fill ovals
  • Seal ballot in provisional envelope
  • Return envelope to Help Table
  • Do NOT put ballot in scanner

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• When voter returns with envelope, give him/her Voter Call-in Instruction form
• Paper-clip any supporting material, e.g., ATV, to outside of voter's sealed envelope
• Place sealed envelope (with any attachments) in Provisional Ballot red plastic bag
• Give voter I Voted sticker

"PROVISIONAL-2008.HTM"      19 Mar 2011  16:03:23      (JKNAUTH)