October 21, 2009
Where is I-1033 on the King County Ballot? (Updated)

mike336 pointed this out in another thread and it is the question asked by King 5's Glenn Farley in this story, and also in this story from the Seattle Times.

Jim McDermott missed it. The report shows that some voters on the street, given a few moments, missed or had trouble finding it.

How stupid.

Isn't one of the benefits of the all mail ballot supposedly that it gives the voter lots and lots of time (weeks) to read the ballot, contemplate the ballot items, fill out the ballot, and double check their selections?

Given upwards of two weeks or more to fill out and return the ballot, there should be absolutely no excuse for not being able to find anything on the ballot - unless it wasn't there to begin with, and that is a totally separate issue.

Posted by SouthernRoots at October 21, 2009 10:02 AM | Email This
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1. Recall that in the first Rossi v. Gregoire election there were over 50,000 'enhanced' ballots, i.e. ballots that were incorrectly filled out and adjusted by canvassers to decide voter intent. Most of these votes went to Gregoire.

In other words, lib voters are inherently less competent than conservative voters. This means that if I-1033 is oddly placed it can only help the initiative. And as Martha Stewart would say, "that's a good thing."

Posted by: travis t on October 21, 2009 09:48 PM
2. People who can't read a ballot (or find someone to read it to them if they're blind), shouldn't be voting in the first place.

Posted by: MarkGriswold on October 22, 2009 03:26 PM
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