Posted on 11/12/2018 8:55:09 AM PST by Kaslin
During the 2000 Florida fiasco, there were allegedly more votes for Pat Buchanan than there should have been. Supposedly, a lot of voters thought they were voting for Gore due to a confused ballot layout. It never ends.
It looks VERY #$##ing obvious to me where to vote for senator.
Is the FL average IQ hovering around 75??
I didn’t think so.
It’s NOT POSSIBLE that I would NOT notice that I didn’t vote for senator.
So #$@## this nonsnese.
In fact, this is the first time I saw this sheet and I thought before that MAYBE it was possible to miss it.
It’s RIGHT THERE OUT IN THE OPEN!!!
Who designed the ballot? Oh let me think, it was the supervisor of elections in that county.
Not the old “Butterfly Ballot, I thought I voted for David Duke” sh*t again!
LOL. Dude, you still think there is a lie the Rats won’t tell?
I agree that it is NOT confusing. And for anyone to suggest that some Dems “meant to vote” for the Dem candidate, but just missed that box is ridiculous.
If this layout is really too complicated for them, then they have no business voting, IMHO.
Stupid conclusions/inferences.
Interesting article.
There is NO SUCH THING as a perfect ballot design. And I left a number of races blank on my (Florida) ballot this November.
I assume they are honest about their age and name :)
None of what this man says makes any sense at all...
If you needed to read the instructions in another language, it would have led you straight to the choices for Senate. Anybody else would have had to be 90% blind to miss the Senate section. This guy is just trying to cause more trouble...probably a Never Trumper who hates Scott and DeSantis trying to get a spot on CNN...I can hear it now....”Even a Loyal Republican says ballot design was confusing”
Give me a break! If I were DeSantis, I would sign a law that says ballots will be printed only in English. If you want to live here and vote here, learn the English language!
Another point is that, are they saying the GOP voters could find that box, but the Dem voters could not? It seems like it should have had the same impact, if, in fact, the voters could not locate the box for Senator votes.
It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity!
I didn’t miss anything on the ballot. Does the author think people who don’t even know who is running or who they are going to vote for until thy open their ballot in the mail are really disenfranchised or are just too lazy to vote anperhaps dumb enough or so apathetic they shouldn’t vote anyway?
Yeah man, I’d be #@#$ing EMBARRASSED to even bring this up!
But dems have no shame.
That’s why all you need to get a 20 something dem into bed is a 6 dollar dink at a bar.
Nor morals, scruples or ethics.
This does not look strange to me at all. The first ballot question is for U.S. Senator (only Federal State-wide question). The ballot is arranged in three columns top to bottom, left to right.
Most people don’t read instructions. I think senator should have been near the top. It is in a weird spot.
In my state, the ballot was in landscape format. Much much easier to use. Vote for senator and governor were at the top.
NEVER thought about that.
Wow.
Florida has real problems from design of ballot to counting. Why are these people SI incompetent?
Agreed
If I couldn’t find where to vote for US SENATOR, not official city dog walker, I would scour the pages and THEN I Would contact whomever I needed to to find out WTF is going on!!
But in this case that wasn’t necessary because IT WAS OBVIOUS!!!
Their was a similar blog article on FR earlier. The Freeper contended that the ballot design would have resulted in the senate race receiving no-votes. But the Freeper contended that the design was intended to allow poll workers to supply a Dem vote later to be included in the recounts. It gave them legitimate ballots where recounts could be skewed.
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