What are we saying? Voters, Democrat voters anyway, are too damn stupid to find their preferred candidate on the ballot?
Are we saying that Democrat leaning voters are so damn stupid, they would vote Republican by mistake, because the Republican is listed first?
Does anyone else feel the implications here are just crazy?
Are we saying that Democrat leaning voters are so damn stupid, they would vote Republican by mistake, because the Republican is listed first?
Does anyone else feel the implications here are just crazy?
Florida's where (supposedly) thousands of voters realized after they'd cast their ballots that they might have voted for Pat Buchanan, because of some nonsense involving where the fold was on a piece of paper, or something of that order of nitwittery.
Someone (here at FR) at that time posted a suggestion that electronic voting machines will eventually display little icons that show the face of the candidate with no words, display a halo over the head of every Democrat and devil's horns and a pitchfork in the frame with every Republican.
Yep.
They say there’s almost a 1.5% advantage for an R listed first over a Dem listed first.
Perhaps the judge’s ruling is based on being fair to the mentally handicapped...
It is the same mentality that was (and is still) extant in the Bush Gore selective (democrat selective) recount... where it was idiotically reviewed individual punchcard ballots. First by volunteers from each party, and in dispute decided by a “judge” (in the case of the famous still Broward machine— a Demonrat with bug eyes photo’d trying to discern the “intent” of an anonymous voter who “Left a Hanging Chad” or only partially indented on a ballot that was left “unpunched” on the Presidential sections. Often times the “unpunched” ballots were indented ON BOTH Bush or Gore sections— and guess what, more often than not decided by the AMOUNT OF INDENTATION, or only marginally better the undetached chad that was not registered by the then card reader machines.
Now it’s more sophisticated— the software is cleverly arbitrarily altered by operatives (if caught- prison time), and a ticker tape summary of the vote per precinct. In those counties anyway.
FL still fortunately uses the fill in the dots SCANNER system, but of course operatives have given pencils to the unaware, when not observed by poll watchers— instead of BLACK INK PENS.
Bush Gore— and recount is when became originally a FReeper, long ago. Met someone who had “gone to Ft. Marcy Park and laid down in the spot where Vince Foster’s body was found” (Not kidding— no idea who that was, but well— “spirited” at the least).
Its good we have all these judges. We would have to utilize self-government and rule of law if we didn’t have these judges to tell us what to do.