Posted on 11/26/2018 3:43:40 PM PST by jonascord
This year, the errors weren't so little. New York City's voters were subject to a series of setbacks after the election board unrolled a perforated two-page ballot. Voters who didn't know they had to tear at the edges to get at the entire ballot ended up skipping the middle pages. Then the fat ballots jammed the scanners, long lines formed, and people's ballots got soaked in the rain. When voters fed the soggy ballots into scanners, more machines malfunctioned.
In Georgia, hundreds blundered on their absentee ballot, incorrectly filling out the birth date section. Counties originally threw out the ballots before a federal judge ordered they be counted.
And in Broward County, Fla., 30,000 people who voted for governor skipped the contest for U.S. Senate. The county's election board had placed that contest under a block of multi-lingual instructions, which ran halfway down the page. Quesenbery says voters scanning the instructions likely skimmed right over the race.
She has seen this design before. In 2009, King County, Wash., buried a tax initiative under a text-heavy column of instructions. An estimated 40,000 voters ended up missing the contest, leading the state to pass a bill mandating ballot directions look significantly different from the contests below.
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I can guess, but I am sure as hell not going to NPR for any answers.
Obviously religious discrimination against the sects that don't celebrate birthdays.
...the more confusing it is...only helps the Rats....so they can shuffle
votes anyway they want...
Scott would likely have lost in Fla had those mostly Dem voters not missed voting in that race. Ha ha ha.
Sometimes instant karma does seem to happen. couldn’t have happened to a better bunch of folks.
Ballots are especially confusing for those who refuse to learn English ... even moreso for the Democrat/Left’s dead voters.
New York City's voters were subject to a series of setbacks...
Well of course they were, it's DNC-run NYC.
All those numbers and letters can be confusing, especially the ones in the instructions. Some of the letters are even capitalized. And so many words! I haven’t seen so many words since high school. And who even can guess at what some of them mean! And, they’re all in English. Who knows that much English?
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I can guess why so many more people are having trouble with the ballots, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the ballots.
Because the ballots are objective and ‘Rats are emotional?
Dear NPR, there is a simple and very old rule that applies in this situation. In Latin (yes it is that old) it is “Cui bono?”, literally “to whom is it a benefit?” Used in criminal investigations it leads to probable suspects who would benefit from the crime.
In politics, where dear old LEFTist NPR fears to go, bad ballot design appears to almost always benefit the LEFT / Democrats. It permits lengthy vote counting, under-votes that can mysteriously find ‘D’ candidates afterwards and opens for interpretation that magic “voter’s intent”. If you were unbiased, NATIONAL Public Radio, you would notice how frequently, complex ballots end with ‘D’ / LEFTist victories!
Here in California a ballot initiative to rescind another gas tax passed by the Democratic legislature was officially mischaracterized by the Democrat Attorney General as a repeal of upgrading roads and bridges on the ballot and was defeated. And we are already paying 30 cents per gallon that’s supposed to roads and bridges but instead goes to the general fund and is used for all kinds of social programs. The people of this state give the Dims all they want then stand in line with their hands out to get theirs.
Do the dead still celebrate birthdays?
Since knowledge of English, both written and spoken , is a requirement for citizenship, I do not think that any ballots should be printed in langauges other than English.
Lawyers like paperwork with wiggle room.
“In Georgia, hundreds blundered on their absentee ballot, incorrectly filling out the birth date section.”
Most Georgia Minorities probably don’t know who their father was ( because their mother didn’t know either) or what date in time they “popped out,” since they were most likely “borned” at home.
So Dems can cheat and/or beat their breasts in lamentation claiming voter suppression/disenfranchisement and get a second chance if they fail to gin up enough fake votes to steal it on the first round?
Were any of the instructions in cursive? If so, they might be able to play the race card.
I would chalk it up to idiots. If the people running these things could actually function in society at regular jobs they wouldn’t be working for the government.
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