| Subject: news of the day 10/23/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/23/2004, 8:57 AM |
| To: election-law |
A.P. offers Layout
Confuses Some Absentee Voters,
which begins: "CLEVELAND (AP) -- Absentee voters in the most populous
county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining
about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose
the wrong candidate, or none at all."
You can see the ballot itself here.
It is not hard to see voters voting punch card hole "14" rather than
"4" if they wish to cast a vote for President Bush.
If this problem is going to be fixed, it had better be fixed fast,
before the election. As we know from the butterfly ballot, after
election day it will be too late.
Senators McCain and Feingold offer this
letter to the editor of the Washington Post.
The document is posted
here
on the indispensable OSU website, which now has the best collection of
2004 election litigation documents on the Internet. They have also
posted the Florida district court decision on provisional ballots here.
The New York Times offers this
front-page report,
which begins: "Republican Party officials in Ohio took formal steps
yesterday to place thousands of recruits inside polling places on
Election Day to challenge the qualifications of voters they suspect are
not eligible to cast ballots."
See this
press release from Ball State University.
-- Rick Hasen Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow Loyola Law School 919 South Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org
