[geeks] I just saw...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 @ 15:22 +0100, Joost van de Griek said:

> Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > Joost van de Griek wrote:
> >
> >> The ability to spoil your ballot is an essential part of the voting
> >> process. Akin to voting "none of the above!"
> >
> > While it's true you should be able to vote for nobody, or for Mickey
> > Mouse, it should not be easy to *accidentally* spoil your ballot and
> > thus lose your vote.
> 
> Agreed. But is shouldn't necessarily be any harder to spoil your vote,
> either. IMHO, it should be about as easy (or hard) as accidentally
> ticking two boxes on a paper ballot, for example. Weeds out the morons
> that act (vote) before they think, read, etc.

Have a ballot where the top of the ballot says, "You must read this
entire ballot for it to be valid."

The end of the ballot says, "Use the blue pen in the box instead of the
black one."


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