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