Clyde: In the long term, we need comprehensive legislation in the state of Ohio to address this serious problem. In the short term, Secretary Husted needs to immediately issue a directive to county boards, that we need to follow federal voting laws and that we need to stop needlessly rejecting eligible votes.

Clyde says many of these ballots are actually good but are rejected because they don’t contain the duplicative information that’s asked of voters but is already on the form. She says many provisional ballots are also thrown out because of poll worker error. 

She says more than 200,000 provisional ballots were cast in the 2012 election.