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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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