Louisiana’s presidential primary is over, but the conversation about voting is just beginning. Several people are outraged after being turned away at the polls Saturday, and social media is spreading theories about why.

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Louisiana’s presidential primary is over, but the conversation about voting is just beginning. Several people are outraged about being turned away at the polls on Saturday, and social media is spreading theories about why.Some said their party was changed without their knowledge. Others took offense to the closed-party system which allowed only registered Republicans and Democrats to vote in the state's presidential primary.Many people expressed their frustration online while the polls were still open, and what seemed like a solution spread quickly. Before the polls closed at 8 p.m., some voters returned and asked to fill out provisional ballots after reading a Facebook post that claimed that anyone, including independents, no-party voters and unregistered voters could be vote by filling out a paper ballot.But that is not entirely true.Dennis DiMarco, registrar of voters in Jefferson Parish, said that in a federal election, a voter must be provided with a provisional ballot if he or she shows up at a precinct and cannot vote in the traditional method.“The commissioners should have been trained, and if anyone asked for a provisional ballot, they give it to them,” DiMarco said. “Sometimes, maybe commissioners were not trained or had forgotten. But if someone says, 'I want to vote' without using the provisional ballots, they should have been offered the opportunity to vote under the provisional ballot."But that doesn’t mean the provisional vote counts. State and local officials said the only way the provisional ballots will count is if a mistake was made with the voter listed on the rolls.If the provisional vote is verified, there's still one more caveat. To have his or her vote count, the voter has to have cast a vote for the candidate who matches his or her party. In the closed party primary, Republicans can vote only for Republican candidates and Democrats can vote only for Democratic candidates.“The reason we have closed party primaries is to avoid what we call crossover voting, whereby the opposing party could vote for the candidate in the other party who is the weakest, and therefore in the runoff that would assure another party a victory,” WDSU political expert Silas Lee said.WDSU asked the Secretary of State’s Office to weigh in as well. In a statement, Meg Casper from that office said:"The presidential primary is Louisiana's only closed primary, so it's not unusual for some voters to be confused since the vast majority of elections in our state are open. However, for the presidential preference primary, according to law, only registered Democrats and Republicans can participate. Provisional ballots given to voters on Election Day are delivered at the end of the day to the clerk of court who determines if the voter was eligible to participate in the election. In this instance, if they were not a registered Democrat or Republican, their vote could not be counted by law."DiMarco outlined what happens next to provisional votes. He said the voting machines will be opened Tuesday, and all the provisional ballots will be removed by clerks of court. The registrar of each parish will collect the provisional ballots and make recommendations to the Board of Election supervisors in that parish whether the vote should count. If the voter is not registered or registered for a party other than Republican or Democrat, the provisional ballot will not count and the voter will be notified by mail.In this fall's presidential election, party does not matter and anyone registered can vote for any candidate on the ballot. That election is scheduled for Nov. 8, with early voting from Oct. 25 through Nov. 1.