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[richlevy]

I've never had a problem at the voting booth before, but I've always voted at upper middle class voting places. My current township is mostly Republican. I would be sort of surprised if I went up to the polls and found that I had either been struck from the polls or that someone there was challenging my vote. Even though I am well educated and somewhat versed in the Constitution, I would be confused. If I was a working class high school grad, how would I handle it?

In Pennsylvania, could my vote be challenged if my name does not exactly match the name on my social security card - "James K. Smith" versus "James Keith Smith" or "Jim Smith"?

What if there was a mistake and the election commission had the wrong social security number?

From here

Currently, just under 10 percent of the 250 million W-2 forms sent to SSA by employers fail to match the information in the SSA database. At least three fourths of these mismatches are unrelated to immigration status. They occur for many reasons, including name changes, incorrect use of titles, and transposition errors. All of these problems are much more likely to occur with "foreign" names, due to the likelihood of transcription errors and differing customs for treating titles and family names.

And if I allowed them to force me to fill out a provisional ballot, how would I know if it was counted?

The new ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow packets must be “Rejected” if there is no “date of birth” on the packet. The Free Press obtained copies of the original “Provisional Verification Procedure” from Cuyahoga County which stated “Date of birth is not mandatory and should not reject a provisional ballot.” The original procedure required the voter’s name, address and a signature that matched the signature in the county’s database.

A lot of people consider election fraud in the form of multiple votes or illegitimate votes to be a terrible problem. I think any unreasonable barrier to a legitimate voter who wishes to exercise his or her right and duty to vote is the greater crime.