Poor ballot designs still affect US elections

USA Today

07/21/08

Poorly designed ballots continue to plague U.S. elections, even after Congress set aside $3 billion to overhaul voting systems to prevent a recurrence of the flawed Florida ballots that deadlocked the 2000 presidential race, a study out today concludes. Problems with confusing paper ballots in 2002, absentee ballots in 2004 and touch-screen ballots in 2006 led thousands of voters to skip over key races or make mistakes that invalidated their votes, according to the study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. ‘In the big election meltdowns … where thousands of votes were lost, ballot design was the primary cause,’ says Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center...

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