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Officials advise: "Don't count provisional ballots"(The Quad-City Times,IA)

By Dan Gearino
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DES MOINES  In a reversal of a controversial policy Thursday, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Secretary of State Chet Culver said ballots cast in the wrong precinct on Election Day should not be counted.
.The only way those so-called provisional ballots would ever be counted is in the unlikely event that there are enough of them to change the outcome of a federal race and one of the candidates challenges the election result. That would require a court to determine the legality of the votes.
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