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provisionally. those get put aside for ten days. as of yesterday, there were 800,000 people yesterday who had asked for an absentee ballot who had not yet sent it back in. a lot of the people are probably waiting until the closing days of race to do it. if each a quarter do not return it and show up at the polls, that s 200,000 people right there. there is a second category that do vote absentee but only do it the day before an election. if an absentee ballot is not in the hand of the election before the election, it gets put in the hands of the board. for ten days. typically folks who have moved or changed their name through marriage and haven t bothered to update the registration. those also get set aside for ten days. so you add these all together, it s quite possible on election night to have 400 or 500,000 votes that we will not how they break until at least november 17th. you know what? president obama seems to be holding a slight edge in ohio.

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