IP: Re: Undue sole credit

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:43:05 -0700
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu, ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
>From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
>Subject: Re: IP: Undue sole credit
>
>If anything, Buchanan is the accidental beneficiary of an extremely
>poorly (and, according to Florida law, illegally) designed ballot,
>an archaic voting system, and election judges who were unwilling
>or unable to help confused and elderly voters sort the system out
>at the polls. Not only did approximately 2,500 people vote for
>Buchanan by mistake (see the interactive scatter plot at
>
>http://cuwu.editthispage.com/2000/11/08
>
>for dramatic evidence of this), but 19,000 more had their ballots
>voided because they thought that they had to punch two holes: One
>for President and one for Vice President.
>
>Regardless of which candidate one favors (personally, I did not
>much like any of the choices with which I was presented), it is
>clear that the dysfunctional system caused the will of the people
>to be misrepresented. The only way to register the voters'
>intentions correctly is to redo the vote in Palm Beach County, as
>well as in any other place where so many election irregularities
>were noted.
>
>Readers of the IP list might be interested in Dan Bricklin's excellent
>collection of information relating to "ballot usability" at
>
>http://danbricklin.com/log/ballotusability.htm
>
>--Brett Glass