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Re: Spot Pole - Is Gore Just a Bad Loser?
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Date: 
Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:38:16 GMT
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> The main problem is that while it looks pretty obvious when looking at the
> ballot straight on, once it is loaded in the ballot booth and you are looking
> at it at about 90 degrees it is hard to tell which hole goes with which
> selection.  I had to concentraight pretty hard when I voted using these ballots
> so I can see where problems could arise.

I was talking about just this over the weekend. I this the ballot may well
have been OK if it was expected. However, if it was not expected to be in
that form it could have jarred some voters a little. We had the same problem
in our 1st PR election a while back - voters just did not expect a different
form. Where they used to vote once from a choice of 5 parties, they then had
a choice of 15-20 and had to vote twice. Many were confused, I was bemused.

Scott A



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  Re: Spot Pole - Is Gore Just a Bad Loser?
 
(...) <snip? (...) Well thats a good point. While I don't think that Gore will file a lawsuit in say Palm Beach over the validity of the ballot I would expect people from his campaign are probably encouraging private citizens to file suit and giving (...) (26 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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