In addition to long queues, a bigger legal battle could emerge over "provisional ballots", the validity of which is contingent on the voter proving that they are eligible to vote Some 350,000 of these "provisional" ballots have been issued.
So the challengers were allowed into polling stations after all.An election reform passed in 2002 lets prospective voters who are challenged cast a "provisional" vote, the validity of which will be determined later, after which it will be added to the final tally if upheld.
A provisional degree of known group validity was established.
The validity of the provisional cluster can be verified by a statistical utility measure based on density, variance, sum of inter-cluster distances, etc (see [ 60] for review).
In November 2008, Brunner became involved in a legal battle against two Steve Stivers supporters that relates to the validity of a 1000 provisional ballots in the race for Ohio's 15th congressional district that at the time of recounting had a 149 vote margin and 27,000 absentee ballots to be counted.
Thus, we assumed the results shown in Table 1 were provisional, and used them to judge the validity of the assumption of the existence of a certain HRF wave pattern for the subsequent Steps 2 and 3, which were processed from objective criteria.
Firstly, the evidence found for validity and reliability must be considered provisional as our sample size, especially males, was small.
If one does find, as we did, inter-instrument correlations similar to those for the corresponding instruments in other languages then that provides at least some provisional evidence for the psychometric quality and construct validity of all of those instruments.
But challenges over the validity of hundreds of votes and reviews of provisional ballots were expected to delay the reports from many, if not all, of the state's 100 counties, elections officials said.
As a result, Congress required that this year, voters be allowed to fill out provisional ballots if their eligibility is in question, and that the validity of those ballots be determined later on.
