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Originally posted by CET
I've seen many pictures of THE butterfly ballot. As I said, it's not a good design, but it's not THAT difficult to figure out either.
Here's another one.
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Who cares what the level of difficulty it is for figuring out?
Why does it have to be figured out at all? It should be the easiest task to complete so they can get people in and out with the least bit fo difficulty.
And once again...you didn't have to use it...I did. It caught me off gaurd immediately. I almost hit the wrong hole but I caught it..and why? Because we were taught from the very beginning of our lives to read from left to right. To start on one page the left one before we proceed to the next.
What about those who didn't catch it, they marked the ballot thinking they marked the correct hole..not even considering there is something to "figure out?" Not thinking that voting for one man or another was going to have some degree of difficulty no matter how minor.
You are also not taking into account people with bad eyesight, or using bifocals, people like my father who is blind in one eye...old people in Florida.
This does have an effect when you're scanning and trying to line things up.