Ohio Cuyahoga County Butterfly Ballot
Talon News is reporting that Ohio's Butterfly Ballot "Appears" To Give Advantage to Kerry-Edwards Ticket...
I say it is DESIGNED to have voters casting a ballot for the Bush-Cheney ticket to punch the wrong hole. GOPUSA reports:
The official ballot for Cuyahoga County, Ohio lists the Democratic ticket first since the word "Democratic" is first alphabetically. An arrow points to an adjacent blue box located directly across from the Kerry-Edwards ticket.
However, the Republican ticket consisting of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is listed at the bottom of the ballot since "Republican" is listed last alphabetically among the names of the political parties.
But the controversy arises over the location of the punch card box for the Republican ticket. The matching red box is not directly across from the Bush-Cheney ticket name, but rather it is located near the top and above the Democratic ticket.
Instead, there is a green box located directly across from the Republican ticket that may fool voters who do not notice that is not the correct place to cast a vote for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
This apparent flaw in the ballot of the most populous of the 88 counties in Ohio could literally swing the election to Kerry-Edwards in what is expected to be a tight race.
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