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  • NYT: The Return of the 'Butterfly Ballot'

    10/29/2004 6:35:57 AM PDT · by OESY · 20 replies · 659+ views
    New York Times ^ | October 29, 2004 | Editorial
    Residents of Ohio's largest county, Cuyahoga, who are voting by absentee ballot this year have to solve a brainteaser. They were each given a ballot with candidates' names, arrows pointing to the right and small numbers. And they each got a punch card with hundreds of little boxes and a number inside each one. A voter is supposed to ignore the arrows on the ballot - which appear to be there by mistake - and punch out the chad in the box on the punch card whose number corresponds to the candidate selected. If, instead, the voter follows the arrow...