I have provisional ballot questions and thought maybe a Political Fixer might have the answer.

If someone votes on a provisional ballot and upon investigation it is found they are indeed a register voter, they just voted at the wrong polling place.

Does this automatically disqualify the whole ballot?
Or do we count the applicable federal candidates, plus statewide candidates and issues?
What if wrong polling place but still the same ballot style (basically the ballot was exactly the same–even state rep, state senate, county council, etc)–do we count that vote?

While I think we all agree that you throw out unqualified votes for state rep/senate and/or county council, why wouldn’t we count their votes for Governor or President?

Congrats President Elect Obama. While you were not my choice, you won and we can move on — after one little formality. I certain you are qualified for the office, but if you could just submit that birth certificate we can clear this little bit of confusion up. It won’t take long. The one you provided was not sufficient. We need the full, official version please.

Even D. Walker agrees, we should get Obama’s certificate out in the open. It would definitely would help heal the great divide in our country and further show that Obama will follow the rule of law.

I can’t imagine any reason why he does not release it.

Think,

D. Walker already knows that Obama is a U.S. citizen and has a birth certificate filed in the State of Hawaii and have expressed this to you serveral times. Now will you please give it a rest?

thinks the election is over and the myth of the mysterious birth certificate is moot. Besides, there would be at least 1,000 GOP attorney’s working on this if it had any credibility.

Actually, he has not released his original certificate. This is a simple fix, produce the birth certificate! And it is a valid issue.

You want the original? The one signed the day he was born?
Let’s see…he only saw his father once. His mother died when he was young. He was raised by his grandmother. As a boy, he lived 9,000 miles away from his birth place.

Thinkless….If Harvard Law School is satifisfied that he was born in the United States, I think you should leave it alone….

Try to make something out of the “mutt” comment he made Friday.

G,
Besides the point. This is a non issue if he produces his certificate. BTW, I wouldn’t put much creed into what any IVY league school endorses these days!

Methinks there is campaign withdrawal afflicting the Political Fix. Note how agitated everyone gets about whom President-elect Obama should appoint as U.S. attorney. How the conversation has shifted (shrunk?).

I took this dreary Sunday to clean out and organize my bookshelves, long neglected during thee campaign season in favor of monitoring politics on the computer. I am putting the dust cover on the computer for a while and taking down David McCullough’s fine biography of Harry S Truman to get an enjoyable refresher on what public servants should be about, including those who may not look like our image of a president when they step into the Oval Office, but who grow to magnify the job as well as themselves, and by extension, our nation.

One think I like about Barack Obama is that he is supposedly a poker player, as was Harry Truman. Neither man blinks when the pressure is on - at cards, or in crises.

I like that in a leader. Now, go read a book and get some fresh air! The politics will still be waiting.

He hasn’t had to deal with crisis as of yet. And don’t even revert to Ccommunity organizer of Chicago or Illinois Senate! There is no substance.