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>>>that interpretation didn't occur to me...<g>
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>>"Railing On Liberal Foolishness" ?
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>Don't get me started...I have seen the ballot in question, and it doesn't look confusing to me. Why would anyone punch 2 holes? And if they realized that they had punched the wrong hole, why didn't they ask for a new ballot?
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>My voting precinct has used that type of ballot in the past, even with skipped holes between the candidates. You punch the ONE hole next to the arrow. Am I missing something here?
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>What a mess.

Until I moved here (back east in Philly) I had never voted on anything EXCEPT a punch book (as we called them) that had names on both sides, just as in Florida. I never had any problem with them.

They are not difficult, and my feeling is that anyone who isn't smart enough to figure out something so plain (arrow pointing to hole to punch), probably shouldn't be voting anyway. Yes - I am a firm believer in having some basic level of intelligence and knowledge before you should be allowed to vote.

Moreover - you could go through EVERY state's ballots and find all kinds of problems like this going both ways. Let's talk about the dems in Philly going to down into the inner city and giving the homeless cigarettes to come vote for them. hmmmmmmmmm ...

The point is - that until the system is massively ovehauled (and probably totally computerized) there is a margin of error that has and will always be there that does not naturally favor either side. Let's do the recount(s) and count the absantees - and whoever wins 2 out of 3 - the other side should just give it up.