Comments on: Ballot types http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:15:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/comment-page-1/#comment-48241 abb1 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:57:42 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2431#comment-48241 <i>...may work against Kerry... Poor Badnarik is screwed either way. </i> …may work against Kerry… Poor Badnarik is screwed either way.

]]> By: Matt Weiner http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/comment-page-1/#comment-48240 Matt Weiner Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:02:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2431#comment-48240 Jesse Taylor <a href="http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/003826.html">posts</a> on similar issues with the Montgomery County, OH ballot, which may work against Kerry. I don't know what those arrows are supposed to signify. (Milwaukee County absentee ballots use the "fill in the arrow" ones that apparently are being used in Palm Beach this year--and I have to say, they seemed pretty clear.) Jesse Taylor posts on similar issues with the Montgomery County, OH ballot, which may work against Kerry. I don’t know what those arrows are supposed to signify. (Milwaukee County absentee ballots use the “fill in the arrow” ones that apparently are being used in Palm Beach this year—and I have to say, they seemed pretty clear.)

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/comment-page-1/#comment-48239 abb1 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:11:57 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2431#comment-48239 Here's one that works against the Bushies: <a href="http://www.electoral-vote.com/images/ohio-butterfly.jpg">Cuyahoga County, OH</a> From www.electoral-vote.com: <blockquote> ...Take a look at the absentee ballot for Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Suppose you wanted to vote for George Bush. Which square would you fill in? If you picked the one I colored in green, congratulations, you just threw your vote away. The one in red is the correct choice to vote for George Bush. Blue is for Kerry. </blockquote> Here’s one that works against the Bushies: Cuyahoga County, OH From http://www.electoral-vote.com:
…Take a look at the absentee ballot for Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Suppose you wanted to vote for George Bush. Which square would you fill in? If you picked the one I colored in green, congratulations, you just threw your vote away. The one in red is the correct choice to vote for George Bush. Blue is for Kerry.

]]> By: joejoejoe http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/comment-page-1/#comment-48238 joejoejoe Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:00:39 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2431#comment-48238 I just early voted yesterday in Volusia County, Florida with an optical scan ballot. Volusia County had a controversy prior to Bush v. Gore in the Volusia County sheriff's race where the local election supervisor Deanie Lowe allowed ballots to be 'overmarked' to make sure the ballots were read by the scanner. IIRC Overnight during the first night of the recount the ballots were guarded by Volusia deputies, whose boss was involved in the contested election. Somehow, all of this was OK and the election stood and the Beckwith v. Volusia case laid the foundation for the disaster in 2000. After marking an optical scan ballot you place it in a vote counting machine with a tiny digital vote counter on the front - after feeding your ballot in the front the meter goes up by one and your vote is counted. I don't know what happens if your vote is somehow rejected (other then 4 years of a disastrous President). <a href="http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/120600/new_ruling.html">http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/120600/new_ruling.html</a> <a href="http://www.flcourts.org/sct/cyber/jan/opinion.html">http://www.flcourts.org/sct/cyber/jan/opinion.html</a> I just early voted yesterday in Volusia County, Florida with an optical scan ballot. Volusia County had a controversy prior to Bush v. Gore in the Volusia County sheriff’s race where the local election supervisor Deanie Lowe allowed ballots to be ‘overmarked’ to make sure the ballots were read by the scanner. IIRC Overnight during the first night of the recount the ballots were guarded by Volusia deputies, whose boss was involved in the contested election. Somehow, all of this was OK and the election stood and the Beckwith v. Volusia case laid the foundation for the disaster in 2000. After marking an optical scan ballot you place it in a vote counting machine with a tiny digital vote counter on the front – after feeding your ballot in the front the meter goes up by one and your vote is counted. I don’t know what happens if your vote is somehow rejected (other then 4 years of a disastrous President). http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/120600/new_ruling.html http://www.flcourts.org/sct/cyber/jan/opinion.html

]]> By: novalis http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/27/ballot-types/comment-page-1/#comment-48237 novalis Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:16:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2431#comment-48237 <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-stores-ballot.html/102-3831983-0568108">An oldie but goodie</a> An oldie but goodie

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