MetaFilter posts tagged with ballots and brokenlink

da5id — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:00:29 -0800

Own a piece of History! At least it is for a good cause. Though, I don't know who would want to buy it. I am sure there are a few people out there who will.

dhartung — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:27:05 -0800

Chicago to enlist graphic designers for friendlier ballots. [free reg may be req'd] There's been a bunch of discussion about the usability problems with various voting systems, notably punch-card ballots. Chicago didn't have anything as dramatic as a "butterfly" prexy ballot or two pages' worth of candidates, but we still had close to 120,000 discards from 2.1 million votes -- and when compared with jurisdictions using other systems, there's little evidence to suggest that voters are skipping the presidential ballot. That's just how bad manual punch card technology is. Even if we can't get rid of them just yet, at least we can make sure they aren't confusing. Did I just post the twenty-sixth link on Metafilter today? GO AWAY. METAFILTER IS FULL. :)

owillis — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:32:56 -0800

Republican mob scene video The guy in the video is being accused of stealing a ballot for the Democrats...

rushmc — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:07:30 -0800

Change the ballots yourself—don't wait for the government to fix things!

mathowie — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 20:03:40 -0800

Porter Glendinning on a weblist noted: "According to http://www.tcpalm.com/_special/pres_returns.shtml, David McReynolds, the Socialist candidate who had the hole beneath Gore's on the ballot, got no more than 36 votes in any county in Florida except Palm Beach, where he got 302. Seems questionable to me." So we've definitely got a problem with the ballot. Is it do over time yet?

snarkout — Wed, 08 Nov 2000 06:50:04 -0800

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines. Regardless of the outcome, those "9 missing ballot boxes" are going to figure in conspiracy theories for decades to come -- there are still people talking about how Nixon was robbed by the Daley machine in 1960. (The fact that a Bush is governor in Florida surely won't shut anyone up.)