It's the only race close enough to even try lol let's not let them have it!

Dem's like 1700 in the lead right already. I think it's pretty much a done deal.

I think they wouldn't be surprised, but it's worth a shot because if they do nothing, they lose; if they do this, they might lose or might win, so of course they'll try. I'd want Dems trying any ethical challenges were it the other way.

Provisional ballots are created when a voter shows up at the poll, but there's some kind of problem with their registration that prevents them from voting. On election day the provisional ballots are tossed in a metaphorical pile labelled "in case of close race, open me."

In most elections, the margin of victory is high enough that no one needs to open the provisional ballots or check their eligibility.

But in this race, it is close enough, so they now need to check whether each individual provisional vote is really eligible to vote or not. This is called "chase and cure," and it usually involves tracking down and talking to the voters and others (the chase) and getting whatever documentation is missing to establish the eligibility (the cure).

The Republican party doesn't want these ballots to be cured or counted, because they expect the votes inside to skew heavily Democratic. So they will oppose. Partly because they caused a bunch of the provisional ballots by kicking people off the rolls wrongly.

However, I think this is a pretty good position for Colom, if he has an 1,800 lead or so, and he expects any added votes to skew to him.

The vote count is ongoing,

I think they allow any postal ballots with postal date up to election day, so they have to wait 10 days IIRC for them to arrive. Normally it doesn’t matter because a clear winner is apparent before it gets to that.

"We expect you to do what you're supposed to do. Not like us, who would steal, hide, and destroy the ballots."

Unfortunately they're specifically going after the provisional ballots because that's what's widening Colom's lead so late. So that probably wouldn't happen