The SECRET Purpose of Trump's Threat to Delay the Vote

[Ms. Toad]

4. There are reasons for issuing provisional ballots.

If you aren't entitled to a reguar ballot, don't be an ass. We observers have bigger battles to fight on election day.

In most states if you requested an absentee ballot, you are not entitled to vote a regular ballot at the polls.
If you are not registered to vote (even if you were mistakenly purged), you are not entitled to vote a regular ballot at the polls.
If you show up at the wrong polling place, you are not entitled to vote a regular ballot at a polling place to which you are assigned.

Yes, it is true that many provisional ballots aren't counted. But before you demand a regular ballot from an election judge, confirm that (1) you are currently registered to vote, (2) you are in the correct polling place, and (3) you have not requested an absentee ballot for this election. (There may be more local rules - but these are the most common reasons people are told they have to vote provisionally - and also the reason many provisional ballots never get counted.