That looks about right, actually. Note how Florida has twice as many people who don't know whom they voted for than Ohio; that's an apt description of the problems encountered in Florida in 2000. A whole lot of people really did have no idea whom they'd voted for -- Al Gore, Pat Buchanan, or both.

Unfortunately this not only brings to mind Florida from 2000, but North Carolina this year. The story that pulling the lever for the Democratic ticket captures every race *except* president is worrisome. At least they caught it, and apparently the Obama ground troops are now warning early voters, but the way early voting has been going it's disconcerting that some of the most committed voters may have messed up their presidential ballot.

Floridians probably think Palin is Anita Bryant. I think she's Anita Bryant.

Sadly these folks were duped by the ballot slot for one Jorack McBama.

My wife and I have voted in Florida and we know how we voted.  The ardor of Democratic Rep. Wexler and the always-wrong Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, for a paper ballot "trail" has produced a nightmare, at least in Palm Beach County.  This time you mark your choice with a pen by closing the line between two arrows. The ballot looks kind of like this:  >    <.  When you register your choice it should look kind of  like this:  >----<.  If you get a little over-exuberant or under exuberant with your pen ( >----<-- or >---  <) the machine you have to slip your ballot into can't read your choice.  The day we early-voted it took just under two hours to process about 200 voters.  This is an "improvement" over the touch stone screens we used last time around?

We need national standards for ballot design.  This kind of crap is making us the laughing-stock of the civilized world.

irony: we do, and we could do worse than copying the Australian model where the voting software was (gasp!) developed open source. However, I'm not convinced that we can convince certain elements ( specifically some elected ones) that perhaps voting systems shouldn't neccesarily be privatized here. Idiots.

You know... I railed against this bailout. I said over and over again that we're doing nothing but rewarding bad behavior when we rescue banks who made shitty decisions with taxpayer dollars instead of letting them suffer the consequences of their own

The Wisdom of the American People From that LA Times poll of Florida &amp; Ohio...