Right Polling Place, Wrong Table, No Vote

(from Dan)

The Stark County Board of Elections has rejected over 500 provisional ballots in Stark County, according to this story in the Canton Repository. Some of them were reportedly cast by voters who appeared at the right polling place, but went to the wrong table and therefore voted in the wrong precinct.

This is really unfortunate. Imagine going to the same polling place you've used for years, and casting a valid vote that is not counted because you went to the wrong table ("Board rejects more than 500 provisional ballots"). WTF? Nobody put up any signs? Why wasn't any information included in the poll worker documentation and/or training (for split-precinct polling places) that recommended having the voter try to find their name on one of the adjacent precinct's voter rolls; literally, one table over?