Email I received yesterday:
Did you vote on a PROVISIONAL BALLOT? If you did and you live in the 15th Congressional District and voted for Mary Jo Kilroy, the Kilroy campaign needs to hear from you. Mary Jo wants to know the circumstances that lead you to vote on at Provisional Ballot? This race is not over, the vote counting continues with a large number of Absentee and Provisional Ballots to count. The small lead for Pryce has narrowed and we think when ever vote is counted Mary Jo Kilroy will be heading to Congress. To contact the campaign call 614-267-2006. For more on the race go to the Kilroy web site
Related news: Kilroy's Veteran's Day Rally, this morning, at 11 a.m., here in Columbus:
Where: American Legion Post 690
738 Bowman Ave.
Columbus, Oh 43205
Kilroy's web site says that In the Ohio State University area -- there were some precincts that voted as much as 42% provisonally. (I'm betting Blackwell's new voter ID rules were great at excluding students because of non-matching addresses on their drivers licenses.) Also from Kilroy's web site, about a 9 Nov. rally:
An overflowing and widely enthusiastic crowd rallied at Ohio State University in support of Mary Jo's "Every Vote Counts, Count Every Vote" effort this afternoon, while attorneys collected affidavits, provisional ballot names and voter irregularity reports from numerous attendees.
Confusion over the new voter-ID requirement was the biggest problem observed by dozens of lawyers monitoring poll sites around the state, said Kent Markus, a Capital University law professor who coordinated the monitoring.
Ohio law allows voters to cast a regular ballot even if the address on their ID doesn't match the address in the poll book. But many voters around the state reported they were forced to vote provisionally by poll workers who thought otherwise.
About 21,000 provisional ballots and 20,000 absentee ballots cast in Franklin County and received Monday and Tuesday remain to be counted, with about half of those in the 15th District, according to Franklin County election officials.
Kilroy said those uncounted votes, particularly those in heavily Democratic precincts around Ohio State University, could tilt the balance her way. Kilroy edged Pryce in Franklin County in early returns.
"This race is still on," Kilroy said. "It's not decided yet."
Kilroy's campaign manager, Scott Kozar, was more optimistic: "When all the ballots are counted, Mary Jo Kilroy is going to Congress."