Provisional ballot

Here's how to find out the status of your ballot in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
What you need to know this election -- especially in New York, California, Arizona and Ohio.
A state-by-state guide for switching from absentee to voting at the polls for the Nov. 3 election.
Mason faces five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election.
Mason was one of nearly 4,000 people who had a provisional ballot rejected in her county during the 2016 election.
Provisional ballots often go overlooked, until they make a big difference in a tight race.
A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel's emergency ruling likely will affect thousands of voters in next week's election.
She says no one ever told her she was ineligible to vote because of a felony offense.
She was sentenced to half a decade in prison even though she said she was unaware she couldn't vote.