No slam, no flame, simply a perspective. I looked at the ballot in
question. Granted, if you are in a hurry and/or your mind was elsewhere,
you may have made a mistake. To me, the real crime is that there was a
sample ballot in the local newpapers and samples posted in the building.
Even with all of this information at the ready, some folks still found a
way to mess up. This may sound a bit harsh, but perhaps this will make
those folks take a little more time to actually *read* the ballot next time.
-=B=-
The Rathe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Sniderman" <fuzzbone@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] RE: Test Problem fixed
> If I want to subscribe to a Gore-bashing mailing list I will. I can think
> of a hundred retorts - but it's not appropriate here...
>
> As far as the ballots - a poorly defined user-interface is a poorly
designed
> user interface. The intelligence or educational level of the user isn't
> going to compensate for that. We have the same type in here in Cook
> County - as the Republicans point out - BUT for everything except judicial
> retention - you never go left-right-left-right - all the candidates for an
> office are on one side of the ballot - and the opposite side is blank.
>
> I AM college educated - and voted many times - and when I got to the
> judicial part (which has options on both side) - it IS very confusing -
and
> I realized I screwed it up. But I figured "It's just judges - most people
> don't vote on those - who cares". And it didn't matter - to remove a
judge
> it requires 60 percent of the voters to vote no - and not a single has
lost
> their job in many many years (great system there)...
>
> That ballot in Palm Beach Florida was very poorly designed. I guess that
> guy can always get a job working for Verant...
>
> Slyde
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanna Wright [mailto:Centiera@...]
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 7:04 AM
> To: eqbards@egroups.com
> Subject: [eqbards] RE: Test Problem fixed
>
>
> Hehe, the real irony here is the same type of ballot
> card is used in Al Gore's home county. Course, this
> is the same guy who's surrounded by several buddhist
> idols, eastern temple arcitecture, and is surrounded
> by men dressed in traditional buddhists clothing but
> doesn't think he's in a buddhist temple.
>
> Sometimes I really hate my country.
>
> Cent
>
> > I mean if us American's can't figure out which darn
> > holes to punch in a ballot card (even a person with
> a > doctorate was quoted as saying that it was
> confusing) > then how can we expect Verant to always
> get things
> > right. ;-)
>
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