[EL] Creative, new ballot-marking errors

[Jim Gardner]

The Buffalo News has this story<https://buffalonews.com/news/local/government-and-politics/o-my-filling-in-candidates-middle-initial-changes-outcome-in-lewiston-race/article_53ed7cfc-5c41-11ec-8db8-3333746b06e4.html> on a close local race that turned on voters marking their scantron ballots by blackening a candidate's middle initial of "O" instead of the circle on the ballot intended for indicating one's choice.  Here's the ballot; the relevant race is in the last column on the right.  Not sure how you work your way from left to right blackening the correct circle and then do something different in the last column, but there you go.  "A foolish consistency," and all that.

Jim




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James A. Gardner
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Research Professor of Political Science
University at Buffalo School of Law
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