> With regards to writing "Straight Republican Ticket" across the top of > a voting paper (That presumably has instructions with it). If the > voter is too stupid to do what the instructions say, why should their > vote count anyway? Conversely if this is to be supported why doesn't > the voting paper simply have a selection for "All Republican".
The old mechanical voting machines had this. There was a lever for party A, a lever for party B, C, D, ... Pulling this lever caused a bunch of levers for individual candidates to flip. If you wanted to vote for everyone in party A except for one race, you could pull the party A lever, then flip the one bad guy's lever back up and flip down the lever for one of the opponents. The user interface was pretty nice. But: The election officials could tell if someone voted a straight or mostly straight ticket, because they didn't take as long to vote. I assume these machine didn't have any way to do a recount. And they sometimes started the day with thousands of votes already recorded. Not practical for absentee or other mail-in ballots. Having the same interface for all voters (okay blind voters are a special case) is a good thing. Some areas have mail-in for everyone, which has the advantage that the voter can vote when and where it is convenient for them. And no standing in a voting booth wondering what to do about the "surprise" races or ballet measures you didn't know about ahead of time. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
