If this is a preview of November, today is THE DAY to stop letting votes being siphoned off to provisional (NOT counted today).
The provo's, combined with automated voter roll database (by ES&S, Diebold/DIMS, Covansys, Accenture [in PA]), and database purging, mean that the HAVA law should be renamed the H-elp A-lawyer Void A-nother (ballot) law.
Any voter who is told their names disappeared from the voter rolls or got a card directing them to the wrong precinct, but "you can vote provisionally" is being parsed off to a marginal voting system. Those votes – if counted at all – are NOT counted On Election Day.
Their chances of counting are far less than 100%, vs 100% for a voter who is admitted to a voting booth.
A person who votes provisionally is subject to a higher hurdle, they have to have good enough identification, and sometimes the determination to reappear at the local Elections office days later, for their vote to count at all, days later.
So HAVA creates 2 voting classes, 1 class whose vote is admitted 100%, and others whose perseverance or loss of determination creates a success rate of 50% - 60% - 70% of votes cast.
In New Mexico in 2004, 1000s of voters were shunted off to provisional ballots in Bernallilo County because of missing middle initials and the like. Many of those votes were not admitted without follow-up.
Provisional voting is partial voting. 500 provisional voters means only a portion of those votes.
Broken voting machines should not lead to partial vote counting, which is what provisional voting equates to.