[EL] The Onion: Florida To Experiment With New 600-Lever Voting Machines

[Michael McDonald]

Actually, this parody is not all that far from the truth as one might
suspect. The Florida ballot is exceedingly long this election due to a
number of ballot initiatives that have been fully printed on the ballot,
with upwards of 10 pages in some counties when local elections are added. A
consequence is that voters will have to spend more time filling out their
ballots and feeding them into scanners, which will create long lines.

"This is the longest ballot I can remember," said Pinellas County Supervisor
of Elections Deborah Clark. "The voter who sees this ballot the first time
may need smelling salts."

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/11/4194723/florida-voters-will-have-long.ht
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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Sherman
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:46 AM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] The Onion: Florida To Experiment With New 600-Lever Voting
Machines

Some levity as the election draws near:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/florida-to-experiment-with-new-600lever-vot
ing-mac,29699/

Best,
Paul

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