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Vera a thnump print on the person you are electing works just as well.
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From: VERA R CROWELL [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:09 PM
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Subject: Analysis of spoiled ballots in the 2000 Election in Florida
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http://www.hamilton.edu/news/florida/Klinkner%20Analysis.pdf
It is clear that what is needed most is voter literacy, before elections
come up. Pay close attention to the high percentages of Florida adults
with a Level 1 literacy (inability to read a bus schedule). I know a
woman here in Madison who, in the last election, didn't really
understand what she was supposed to do, so she picked a candidate and
wrote-in a name (possibly her own, I don't know). If you can't read and
understand the instructions, you can't possible vote correctly. For
example, one article I read stated that in the "white" counties in
Florida, the citizens, when a stray mark was made, asked for a new
ballot; in the "black" counties, the ballots with stray marks were
discarded. If they could not read and understand the instructions which
state that you should ask for a new ballot if a stray mark is made,
whose fault is that?
NOTE: I am not saying that there were not irregularities, there probably
always are, and the 2000 election isn't the first time they were an
issue, we were simply uninformed. What I would like to point out is,
there are a very large number of educators angry about "spoiled votes"
when a more literate electorate would prevent many of the problems.
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