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"I find it incredible that anyone with an IQ over 75 would skip voting on Question 1. Just incredible."

I've got a Phi Beta Kappa key, thank you very much, and I didn't actually skip voting on it, I simply startled myself realizing I'd momentarily forgotten about it, when it was so incredibly important. I should have simply started at the top left of the ballot instead of zeroing in on the propositions, which were easy to differentiate from the candidate lists. This is the first time in over 20 years of voting I've had this kind of ballot and the layout, including the mess of 135 non-alphabetical names, was just a little weird. (Actually filling in the ballot, blacking the circles, was no big deal at all.) Hopefully my "Uh-oh, caught it!" experience and that of a couple others here was an aberration and it was a piece of cake for most voters, who hopefully also started right at the top left corner where they couldn't miss the important question. :)

With that huge number of pages of ballot, and only a few choices, I think it very credible that people might miss Q#1. I suspect your experience is going to be quite common, unfortunately. I suspect it may well lead to the most credible legal action opposing the result of this election.

I'm quite concerned now, and as I posted somewhere above, no exit poll numbers will be worth a tinker's # without the knowledge as to whether a person actually reports that they DEFINITELY answered THAT question. The only way I can imagine they are able to definitively answer that is if they can state the precise way they voted on the propositions, too, and that they answered all three of those Yes-No questions.

Forget the exit polls, folks - they will be far more meaningless than usual. We're really going to have to wait for the count, and apparently that means until after 10AM tomorrow morning.

Hopefully my "Uh-oh, caught it!" experience and that of a couple others here was an aberration and it was a piece of cake for most voters, who hopefully also started right at the top left corner where they couldn't miss the important question. :)

Nope. I am a 30 year old software engineer (programming is a game of details) and I can't remember if I voted Yes on the recall or not. I can say for sure I voted for Arnie and what I did on the initiatives but for the life of me I can't rememebr if I voted Yes on the recall. I believe I did though, but the two sided optical ballot we used in San Bernadino County was weird.