QuoteNational studies on the issue demonstrated ballot-spoilage rates across the country range between 2-3 percent of total ballots cast. Florida's rate in 2000 was 3 percent. In 1996 it was 2.5 percent. --from The 2000 Election: Where's the Disenfranchisement?
Originally posted by: Hal 9000
"Ooohh.... scary machine."
I think electronic voting machines are a good thing. Have we forgotten last election in Florida yet? My God!
It was the closeness of the vote in Florida that triggered the Democrats to demand the recount, and started the mess.
Where I live (not in Florida), we use the butterfly ballot. From my personal experience, there is no flippin' way that people, even the elderly, could NOT get a proper bunch. You've got an inch-long stylus that goes into a hole with your ballot about 1/2 an inch below. The only possible way, and this was suggested, is if people were trying to punch their ballots with ballpoint pens, rather than the provided stylus.