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Author Topic: Unfucking believable !!! the ballots in Michigan...  (Read 1167 times)
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« on: October 07, 2004, 02:11:25 am »
take a look at this :

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlafler/ballot.jpg

If you checkmark next to Kerry, you're in fact voting for Bush ! If you checkmark next to Cobb, you'll be voting for Kerry !
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2004, 02:55:18 am »
Yah.  Those are a mistake and were withdrawn quickly.  However, the very fact that they were sent adds confusion to the election there.

My read is it's an "oops", one that would fuck Bush as much as Kerry.

I mean, if you're a Bush supporter there just nowhere for you to vote. And if you're smart and realize the holes have just been dropped down one, you're still marking the spot next to Kerry... which would make you shit bricks.

So it's no good for anyone.  Chalk this one up to stupid people.
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2004, 02:30:06 pm »
Sooo, if this thing grows, you might end up with a race between the democrats and the green..how interesting Wink
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2004, 03:28:11 pm »
is that how a typical ballot looks in the USA? (more or less?)
'cause if it is, it looks like only people with a college degree are allowed to vote.

dutch voting machine: http://www.zowerkt.nl/rechten/images/uitleg/stemmachine_geheel.jpg
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2004, 07:17:40 pm »
That Dutch machine from that far away looked pretty complicated...what's it like up close?

Yeah...a lot of US paper ballots have the "connect the arrows" system...others a hole punch...others you just put your vote into a computer, which eats it and decides to vote the way it was programmed  Wink

Oh and I'm sure this is horribly incorrect, but I'm going to try and use some of my limited Dutch vocabulary:

De stemming is gisela!
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« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2004, 09:33:53 pm »
Every ballot I've ever filled out here in Colorado has been scantron fill in the bubble...fairly straightforward. It seems a bit awe-inspiring the stupidity of some ballot creators how they can actively seek out a worse style ballot.
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« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2004, 09:58:40 pm »
Oh my god we have the easiest system ever here....

1. Take ballot paper

2. View List of parties to choose between on ballart paper (noramlly between 6 and 9)

3. Mark a big X in the box by the party your voting for

4.The end.

5.No really. thats it.

6.honest.
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« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2004, 10:06:02 pm »
same in France.
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2004, 08:47:45 am »
Wow, its the same in norway...do you think we have the same government? like secretly or something?
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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2004, 08:05:53 pm »
same in Austria.
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2004, 09:37:39 pm »
same in Iraq
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2004, 10:16:02 pm »
same in Canada (Ontario at least)
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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2004, 11:03:24 pm »
Quote from: :MoD: Brutha on October 08, 2004, 08:47:45 am
Wow, its the same in norway...do you think we have the same government? like secretly or something?

no, but i'm pretty sure some think we're a bunch of retarded countries Wink
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