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Designer of Confusing Ballot Loses in Palm Beach County
New York Times ^ | September 2, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 09/02/2004 8:22:49 AM PDT by OESY

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"Theresa LePore ... became the butt of jokes on late-night talk shows...."

Note how Theresa has been brutally trashed -- without using her name??? /sarcasm







Checking the "clear intent" of the voter.

1 posted on 09/02/2004 8:22:50 AM PDT by OESY
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ROTFL! Palm Beach Democrat voters have to be, colletively, some of the dumbest people on the planet.


2 posted on 09/02/2004 8:24:10 AM PDT by mgc1122
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"With all 692 precincts reporting, a challenger for her post as Palm Beach County elections supervisor, Arthur Anderson, had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while Ms. LePore had 85,601, or 48 percent. "


Now, did she get that high a percentage because she got to design the ballot again, or are Floridians really dumb enough that they want to re-elect the woman they blame for making them the butt of jokes nationally, and for costing their guy the election?
3 posted on 09/02/2004 8:25:14 AM PDT by sharktrager (The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the paving contractor lives in Chappaqua.)
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Arthur Anderson? ARTHUR ANDERSON?!?!?!?

You have got to be kidding!

Truth really is stranger than fiction . . .


4 posted on 09/02/2004 8:26:29 AM PDT by filbert (Live Free or Die. . .)
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Palm beach voters are so stupid 48% still supported LaPore. Unbelievable.


5 posted on 09/02/2004 8:27:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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It's all of the Depression Era geezers.

We'll be better off when they're dead and gone. They've never left the 20's/30's.


6 posted on 09/02/2004 8:29:07 AM PDT by gunnygail (Pooping that hot spicy Thai food this morning was SEARED, SEARED into my brain, I tell you.)
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Arthur Anderson? ARTHUR ANDERSON?!?!?!? You have got to be kidding!

THERE'S a name you can trust when it comes to numbers...


7 posted on 09/02/2004 8:34:36 AM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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On the other hand, I seem to recall her as very pretty.
8 posted on 09/02/2004 8:38:07 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: gunnygail
Almost w/o exception when I see a Kerry sticker on a car here in NC it belongs to a 'Seasoned Citizen'.

MKM

9 posted on 09/02/2004 8:40:34 AM PDT by mykdsmom (Tolerance is the last virtue of a degenerate society)
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To: OESY

I read there was a HUGH vote count mistake in her race, something about absentee ballots getting counted twice.


10 posted on 09/02/2004 8:44:08 AM PDT by GoLightly
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A selection from A Message From The Vice-President Of The United States
As heard on Saturday Night Live, November 11, 2000

...In the opinion of most independent observers, this is the single most confusing, bewildering, incipherable document ever produced. To begin with, how do you know which side to vote on? [ holds it up on one side ] Is this right-side up? [ flips it over ] Or is this right-side up? The ballot doesn't say. And what's with all these confusing names? Bush. Gore. Buchanan. Nader. And confusing party affiliations. Democrat. Republican. Reform. Here's one called "Green". And here's more names. George. Patrick. Albert. John. John. There's two different Johns. I mean, who on earth could figure this out. But to really understand how confusing this ballot is, you have to take a closer look. Here it is. [ close-up is shown ] Now, for the love of God, what are all these dots? And these arrows? If you look closely, you will see that tips of the arrow points to a dot...but the shaft of the arrow points back to a name. So how do you vote? Do you circle a candidate's name? Do you underline it? Or do you write it on the arrow? Or underneath? Or maybe it's the dots. Do you write the candidate's name on the dots? They seem sort of small. Maybe just his initials. Or do you color in the dots? If so, in what color? Maybe you scratch the dots with the edge of a penny. Or lick the dots. Again, this ballot does not spell it out. I went to Harvard - I couldn't make heads or tails of this. [ puts ballot away ]

Just imagine what it was like for the most vulnerable residents of Palm Beach. [ holds up photo ] This is Esther Rosenthal. Esther Rosenthal is age 92, a Democrat all her life.. Esther left her nursing home Tuesday morning intending to vote for me! Totally bewildered by this ballot, she ended up voting for the Libertarian candidate, and switching her long-distance service to Sprint. [ holds up next photo ] Okay.. Sidney and Reesa Mandel, age 87 and 85, ate their ballot! [ holds up next photo ] While Rachel Goldensten, age 96, mailed hers to Barbra Streisand...


11 posted on 09/02/2004 8:47:42 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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Wasn't Ms Laporte a Democrat in 2000? This article doesn't say. Perhaps an important point.
12 posted on 09/02/2004 8:57:31 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: VadeRetro


13 posted on 09/02/2004 9:00:11 AM PDT by OESY
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To: RedEyeJack

Was and still is a Democrat.


14 posted on 09/02/2004 9:02:32 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: OESY
Theresa LePore, the official whose confusing butterfly ballot design

Nope, no bias here.

15 posted on 09/02/2004 9:03:58 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: OESY
She just needs to smile more. ;)
16 posted on 09/02/2004 9:06:08 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: OESY

If a voter can't follow those directions, they don't deserve to vote.


17 posted on 09/02/2004 9:08:05 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) Our sins put Him on the Cross, His love for us kept Him there (||)
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To: OESY; All

I'm by no means a member of Mensa...but a person has to be an absolute %#@*ing idiot not to be able to figure out that ballot.

Seriously, someone tell me.

Are the voters of Palm Beach County really this %#@*ing stupid?


18 posted on 09/02/2004 9:11:37 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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Just Damn!!!!!

These are headed straight for the color printer!


19 posted on 09/02/2004 9:25:42 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: "John Kerry sees 2 Americas...America sees 2 John Kerrys." (VP Cheney))
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"Palm beach voters are so stupid 48% still supported LaPore. Unbelievable.."

Nah- that 48% thought they were voting for the other candidate.


20 posted on 09/02/2004 10:20:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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