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A provisional ballot records your vote when there are questions about your eligibility to cast a regular ballot. Provisional ballots serve as a back-up option to make sure eligible voters aren’t turned away from the polls. In some states, they may be called challenged, affidavit, questioned, or special ballots. You may have to cast a provisional ballot if you don’t bring your state’s required IDs to the polls or present an ID that is not accepted in your state. What happens next depends on wher