For Nelson, the harshest disappointment involved “undervotes.” In the Democratic stronghold of Broward County, thirty thousand voters did not vote for either Senate candidate. It turned out that, because of a faulty design, the Senate race had been buried at the bottom of the ballot’s first column, after a long list of voting instructions. Voters skipping over the instructions had evidently failed to see it. “That was the whole race right there,” Nelson told me. “Those were my votes.” After recounts by machine and by hand, Scott won by ten thousand and thirty-three votes—one-tenth of one per cent of the eight million cast.
Yep - and olds like to read instructions. Might have been by design but I’m not sure if they’re that smart.
The CA ballot had a similar issue where there are Back/Next arrows to go to the next screen, but completely not obvious you also needed to scroll down to see all the stuff on each screen - including the first page which had dem primary candidates. It was random order apparently. Bernie and a couple others were visible. But not Biden.
Notice the semi-circular More button? It’s easy to miss. All they had to do was add an alert if you try to click Next before looking at the whole page. But no because govt (and big corps are just as bad).
Absolute UI/UX design fail - which is my biggest bugaboo that sends me into a blind rage instantly. But in the case of CA I think it was pure stupidity - as it benefited Bernie. Unless some smart programmer/UX person snuck it in to benefit Bernie. Hmmmm. But I doubt they’d have known the candidate order when they were programming it.
And what was most infuriating is the poll workers knew about it, but weren’t allowed to give specific instructions about the arrows and scrolling. Just vague “make sure to look at everything very closely”.
I’d go bonkers if I had to go through a US-sized ballot all the time. I’ve never voted in an election where I had to vote on more than three things at once.
US ballots really are nasty and confusing. Which is why I don’t want to do mail in. I like the machine prompting me and keeping me in bounds (except when it fails). Also if I screw up I can get a new ballot.
I get excited about these things, like felon voting, when they actually happen. I feel like winning in court is just plan A for Republicans. If that fails, we move to plan B.
The next step is to push for the post office to be open late on election day the same way that they are on tax day. Even if that won’t happen this year, we should still put it on our wish list for future elections and start talking about how common sense it is to do it now.
Yep, Trump is going to 100% declare he won NC on election day. We won’t know actually know until the absentee ballots come in. God the fucking week between election day until mail in ballots count. Going to be the longest week of my life as the inevitable fucking shit we all know is going to happen happens
I don’t know if I’m going to be productive at all during that week if I do work. I’m going to work Monday and Tuesday, and take the rest of the week off/work from home and take calls.
I was thinking somethjng more along the lines of have a. Inch of unmasked minorities congregate outside the polling place se in the Villages and the Southside of Jacksonville.
