CORRECTION, Nov. 21, 2012, 8:50 p.m. PT: Updated to clarify that 5% of provisional voters, not all voters, cast provisional ballots due to the new ID requirement. We email subscribers who don’t read the Blog missed the correction. (And still uncorrected is the bill number, which is 1337, not 1377.) But I can now update to clarify that, of the options previously posited, Project Vote’s sloppy reporting apparently was a simple mistake and not a deliberate misrepresentation on the part of Ms. Lee. At issue now is whether the correct numbers, evidencing a miniscule .015 percent of Virginia voters casting provisional ballots due to Voter ID requirements, will persuade anti-ID groups including Project Vote to reconsider their opposition.
When inaccurate information is reported, as in Project Vote’s November 21 “Bill Alert” email, the mistake ought to be acknowledged by the same method, so the correction reaches the same audience. An alert reader, however, not another “Alert” email, advised that the major misquote about Virginia’s Voter ID law, which I called attention to here on November 22, was in fact corrected by Project Vote late on the 21st via its Blog site:
Virginia Voter ID Alert Correction
CORRECTION, Nov. 21, 2012, 8:50 p.m. PT: Updated to clarify that 5% of provisional voters, not all voters, cast provisional ballots due to the new ID requirement. We email subscribers who don’t read the Blog missed the correction. (And still uncorrected is the bill number, which is 1337, not 1377.) But I can now update to clarify that, of the options previously posited, Project Vote’s sloppy reporting apparently was a simple mistake and not a deliberate misrepresentation on the part of Ms. Lee. At issue now is whether the correct numbers, evidencing a miniscule .015 percent of Virginia voters casting provisional ballots due to Voter ID requirements, will persuade anti-ID groups including Project Vote to reconsider their opposition.
When inaccurate information is reported, as in Project Vote’s November 21 “Bill Alert” email, the mistake ought to be acknowledged by the same method, so the correction reaches the same audience. An alert reader, however, not another “Alert” email, advised that the major misquote about Virginia’s Voter ID law, which I called attention to here on November 22, was in fact corrected by Project Vote late on the 21st via its Blog site: