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Screen Ranger...
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:20 am
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Yup.........The Leftist Whining Machine is Gearing Up
EARLY.........For all them Stupid Lefties that CAN'T figure out how to
VOTE........Donchaknow.........

"Confusing ballot designs still plague elections

May 11, 2008

(AP National) - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting
experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed
the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the
political lexicon — pregnant, hanging and otherwise.

So it would seem that redesigning ballots to make them simpler should
have been a high priority. But that hasn't been the case, voting
experts say.

Eight years after the fiasco in Florida's Palm Beach County, confusing
ballots continue to stymie voters and plague elections in this primary
season.

"The sad fact is, we still have not systematically addressed the need
for good ballot design standards," said Lawrence Norden of the Brennan
Center for Justice at New York University's law school. "We've spent
billions of dollars on overhauling election administration in this
country, but we're still seeing the same ballot design mistakes in
almost every federal election." "
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:16 pm
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On May 11, 3:20 pm, Screen Ranger <ScreenRanger... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
Yup.........The Leftist Whining Machine is Gearing Up
EARLY.........For all them Stupid Lefties that CAN'T figure out how to
VOTE........Donchaknow.........

"Confusing ballot designs still plague elections

May 11, 2008

(AP National) - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting
experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed
the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the
political lexicon — pregnant, hanging and otherwise.

So it would seem that redesigning ballots to make them simpler should
have been a high priority. But that hasn't been the case, voting
experts say.

Eight years after the fiasco in Florida's Palm Beach County, confusing
ballots continue to stymie voters and plague elections in this primary
season.

"The sad fact is, we still have not systematically addressed the need
for good ballot design standards," said Lawrence Norden of the Brennan
Center for Justice at New York University's law school. "We've spent
billions of dollars on overhauling election administration in this
country, but we're still seeing the same ballot design mistakes in
almost every federal election." "

Why not return to the the now obsolete paper ballots, where each of
was sent a sample ballot weeks before the actual election?

That way no one was unclear on entering the ballot booth.

Harry C.
gdewilde at (no spam) gmail.com...
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:15 am
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