In the interest of equal time...
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mmcirvinVia electoral-vote.com: Here's a ballot whose obnoxious design could hurt Bush. Regardless of who I'd like to take Ohio, this is very, very wrong.
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Date: 2004-10-24 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-24 06:59 pm (UTC)And so why is 14 highlighted, when checking that one would actually result in voting for no one? I am confused. And how would one vote for Peroutka and Baldwin?
I like our nice felt-pen-mark-in-an-unambiguous-checkbox way, here in Rhode Island. No marking on pieces of paper that aren't lined up, that are sort of shoved on the side. We have stuff all on one actual page.
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Date: 2004-10-24 07:11 pm (UTC)It's an absentee ballot, and you're actually supposed to punch the square with the printed number, so 4 would be a correct Bush vote, not 14. So the arrows mean absolutely nothing; I think they're there because the ballot was adapted from something printed for a Votamatic butterfly punch-card machine. It's a complete train wreck.
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Date: 2004-10-24 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-24 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-24 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-24 07:05 pm (UTC)See? Nice and simple, just connect the arrows with the provided pen.
And I should also say that usually, the arrows are even more unambiguously far apart from each other than they look on the sample -- because the actual ballot is rather large, not 8x11 but probably more like 11x17 at least, if not more.
now figure out how to write-in
Date: 2004-10-24 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-25 12:11 am (UTC)