The Nashua Telegraph reports on the latest attempt to satisfy the “provisional ballot” phobia of voter ID opponents and some election officials.  The Senate bill allows everyone, even those without the required proof of identity, to still vote a regular ballot by simply signing an affidavit of identity. While the handling of provisional ballots may add extra duties to election officials, if the voter turns out to have improperly voted, there is no way to take back a regular vote already illegally cast on the voting machines and counted. This process could disenfranchise properly cast legal votes.  The most ridiculous foot-dragging in the proposal is the requirement of four full years of implementation (until 2016) to simply add one more piece of paper to the process.
    
The bill would give local and state election workers until the 2016
election to prepare. Those who did not have an ID at the polls would
still be allowed to vote and would have to fill out an affidavit
attesting to their identity under penalty of perjury.

..The sticking point had been the insistence from House leaders that those
without the proper papers be designated as ‘’provisional’’ voters whose
ballots would not be counted unless they showed back up at city or town
hall with proof of their identity.