Quite the travesty is going on in Florida. With Gore and Bush less than a thousand votes apart, the potential that many people voted for Buchanan instead of Gore due to a confusing ballot could create the need for a revote. How aphalling if this could make the difference between Bush or Gore.
As everyone waits with baited breath for the results of the Presidential election, Eileen McNamara has written an excellent column about how the electoral college needs to be done away with. I was just thinking this morning - how ridiculous is it that someone can win the popular vote but lose the election? There's no law that says electoral representatives are beholden to your vote either. These are serious issues that need to be addressed. I'll most likely create and electoral education page after the election is over with and perhaps there will be a big effort to get it overturned.
First it was confusion over the ballot in Palm Beach county. Now it's missing ballot boxes. Next, please.
I have successfully proved, yet again, that there are some days I shouldn't be allowed near a computer. Besides a duplicate MeFi post, I've also sent an e-mail response to someone I didn't mean to. Time for a walk....off that pier down the street.
Here's a copy of the offending ballot in Florida. I'll be the first to admit that I cruised through filling out my votes yesterday - it reminded me of taking an easy multiple choice test in college. However in quickly looking at that ballot, I would have expected the "punch" for the right-hand column to be on the right-hand side of that column. At a quick glance, I would have screwed up as well.
Don't like your current choice of conspiracies in Florida? Wait a while... A ballot box was found to be left behind at a church in Florida. Next....?
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