Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> CurtAdams@aol.com wrote,
> > This is *doctors* dealing with *yes/no* boxes. What amazes me about the
> > Palm Beach business is not that 2% did their ballots wrong but that 98%
> > did them right.
>
> I agree. I do human interface as a hobby. I am hearing more and more ways
> that people screwed up the Palm Beach ballot. I never dreamed there could
> be that many ways to do it wrong! Here are some ways I have heard. I
> couldn't think these up by myself if I tried!
>
> - punch second hole to choose second candidate listed (Buchanan vote)
> - count down to the fifth hole to punch it instead of punching the hole
> numbered 5
[long list of boneheadisms snipped]
Some people think that we need poll testing for literacy, numeracy, and
basic civic knowledge, so that the voters have to be somewhat
knowledgeable- but making the ballot *itself* the test is a stroke of
genius.
-- Doug Jones, Rocket Plumber XCOR Aerospace
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon May 28 2001 - 09:50:20 MDT