Contra Costa County elections officials plan to resume a controversial practice involving vote-by-mail ballots after Tuesday's primary election.
At issue are the ballots mail-in voters are given if they show up at a polling station on Election Day and want to cast a vote using a different ballot. This year many "no party preference" voters wanted to exchange their ballots so they could vote in the Democratic presidential primary.
For years the Contra Costa registrar's office has directed poll workers to give these voters provisional ballots instead of replacement ballots -- a practice state officials and voter advocates say is against California law.
Unlike replacement ballots that are counted on Election Night, provisional ballots are counted afterward.