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!
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.
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!
Florida has real problems from design of ballot to counting. Why are these people SI incompetent?
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.
Given the author’s second point was math, he or she could have at least done it honestly.
Let’s go with the 25,000 undervotes. 70% to Nelson is indeed 17,500 but ignores the 7,500 Scott would have gotten. Precinct level analysis could possibly yield a more precise answer (not going “there” in terms of which side of the electorate would be more apt to screw up) but in all likelihood Nelson would still have lost.
The writer is wrong on many counts...First off the ballot was six pages long both sides in many areas....There are exactly 30 cities in all of Broward County which is 1,323 sq miles of land and water.61.13% of the registered voters bothered to vote at all. Per SOE where I work.Besides the folks running for jobs there were 14 Constitutional changes and 12 County changes to its constitution all included on the ballot designed by the Supervisor of elections thats dumb. If all who voted did so thru a as200 ballot Scanner that amounts to 4,277,040 pieces of paper. Each Pct at close does a computer run n 2 copies 1 to driver who picks up the equipment and the second carried by the Clerk of the PCT is there private car with seals attached on all bags 4-8 bags per pct.....Well I shall enlighten you this election as of the last announcement 712,840 people voted in Broward County at six (6) pages both sides that amounts to 4 million,277 thousand and forty pages of ballot form....in a county of 1, 843,152 people.....of which 593,540 are registered democrats, 252 thousand and twenty three are registered Republicans and three hundred twenty eight thousand eight hundred and sixty eight no party affiliation,,,,,,,,the people count who voted were increased by close to 50% overall...AND YOU DO REALIZE THERE ARE 608 Polling Locations in Broward County....an all cites had questions on the ballotts that were for that city alone....so as you can see this is a huge undertaking....
UNDERVOTE IS A B.S. TERM - YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FILL OUT AN ENTIRE BALLOT!
Does anyone else have questions about probability in regards to the razor-thin margins being reported? It doesn’t seem possible.
“because voting instructions in three languages”
OK, ENGLISH
SPANISH
????
My chad is still hanging from the 2000 erection....errrrrr....election....
The non-bullshit answer: they got pictures of us with boxes of votes taken from people’s cars, and then started auditing the vote. If they audit for duplicates and non citizens nationwide the democrats lose the house and the voters will become in a deportment dupporting mood.
Or, simply they made up ballots with just votes for governor.
Second, the theory makes little sense on its face. There were fewer votes cast for Senator than for Governor. If everybody who voted for Governor also voted for Senator, I would expect a similar Rep vs Dem distribution for both races, given the current political polarization and the strong trend toward less and less ballot splitting. It's hard to imagine somebody voting for both DeSantis and Nelson, or for both Scott and Gillum. So if there was a lesser undervote for Senate it is probable that Scott would have a similar lead as DeSantis, i.e., larger than he currently has, not smaller or negative.
Nothing wrong with that ballot. But if you’re too dumb to handle columnar data, maybe you’re too dumb to be voting on a more complex issue, eh? (not you personally, but the average south Florida voter)
only people that can’t speak English and mental incompetence would mess this up.. It’s quite obvious that the shill voter was trying to only vote for Governor..
What kind of GD idiot would forget about one of the two most important races on the ballot? Answer: Someone who should not be allowed to vote in the first place.