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

[Smith,Daniel A]

One minor correction to Michael's reply. Florida has no statewide initiatives on the ballot. All 11 are legislative referendums. 

daniel a. smith
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On Sep 27, 2012, at 9:30 AM, "Michael McDonald" <mmcdon at gmu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> ml
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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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