[GOPrincess]

Yes, I'm also in Orange County and I thought the paper ballot was a little weird. I did the voting backwards just because it was easy to see the propositions at the end of the ballot, then became preoccupied hunting for Arnold's name in that huge random list (I think it was really IRRESPONSIBLE to print them out of alphabetical order, personally) -- then I sort of "caught" myself, "Oh, there's the question at the top, duh, I need to vote to recall!" There was no good defined breakpoint between that question and the candidates. There should have been a blank gap dividing the recall question from the candidates list. I'm no dummy and no conspiracy theorist, but my heart started to pound a little harder for a second when I realized I almost missed the recall question. I thought I had just been a little too haphazard by starting voting at the end so it's interesting to hear others in O.C. noticed a bit of a problem with the recall question's positioning.

[AFPhys]

Well, princess... I must say that from your report, and those of many others on several other threads I've looked at, that I am now truly concerned that there may be a serious situation. Indeed, a failure to vote YES on the recall question is akin to a NO vote on it. While the electronic voters can't seem to miss it, it appears that all of the paper-balloting voters are prone to missing the #1 RECALL question. Whether it will be sufficient to result in that question going down to defeat is impossible to predict, but it has become obvious to those viewing it from afar that there will be some significant numbers of voters who fail to hit YES there.

Perhaps some dough ought to have been spent on getting this message out... but who ought to have spent it?