correct precinct.430

These records with appeared to indicate demo some voters were purged from the voting

rolls on the basis that they failed to vote in the previous election, while other voters who had not

voted in version elections had not been purged.431 On October 26, Secretary Blackwell issued a

directive and provided it to Greene County officials regarding the "pre-challenging" process,

where a voter's eligibility is challenged prior to the election, and sent an attached list of voters

who were to be pre-challenged in Greene County, to the Board of Elections.432 Notice was sent

by the Board to these voters on the Friday before the election by registered mail, and was likely

not received until Monday, advising such voters of their right to be present at a Monday hearing,

where the voter's eligibility would be decided.433

Other irregularities appear in the official ballot counting charts prepared by election

officials, including a number of precincts where the number of voters do not match the number

of votes cast despite the fact that the charts indicate that those numbers "must match."434

We have also obtained evidence indicating that eligible voters did not have their ballots

counted for invalid reasons.435 For example, an overseas military ballot was not counted because

it was a photocopy rather than the original ballot; an 85 year old voter did not have his absentee

vote counted because it did not have a stub attached; a disabled voter who indicated she marked

her ballot with the assistance of election workers did not have her absentee vote counted because

no stub was attached; an absentee voter with a properly postmarked ballot did not have his vote

counted because it was received "too late," but before the initial certification of results; and

provisional ballots that were not counted because an election official forgot to sign as a witness

when the ballot was cast. Substantial numbers of provisional ballots appear to have been rejected

because voters were purged in the last two years.

Id. A notation by an election worker clearly indicates that "we..donated green secrecy

envelopes to another precinct to which they wrote their precinct number because they ran out of

envelopes." (Emphasis added). A partial list of these voters is on file with staff. A number of

voters are recorded as voting in precincts adjacent to the precinct in which they were registered.

Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, Directive 2004-44 (Oct. 26, 2004) (on file

with staff, including attachment).

Staff Interview, supra.

On file with staff.

Copies of ballot envelopes on file with staff.

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