Warning: California Gets Its Own Butterfly Ballot

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Please spread the word to everyone you know in Los Angeles County:

California Gets Its Own Butterfly Ballot

If you are a Decline-to-State voter, you MUST fill in the "Democratic" oval
(top section) AND fill in the oval of your preferred presidential candidate (bottom section)!



A picture of the ballot is included here:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/lucasoconnor/BrK

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If you care about election integrity issues, you should read this Daily Kos diary right now and make sure to Recommend it (if you have a Daily Kos account) and tell your friends in Los Angeles County:

California's Butterfly Ballot?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/4/17959/87508

Associated Press just covered the story (San Jose Mercury News link):
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_8165670

Original Courage Campaign letter to the LA ROV here (released this morning)
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/-/CourageCampaignLetter.pdf

Comment at on the Courage site here:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/lucasoconnor/BrK

Other Frequently Asked Questions on DTS voting can be found here:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/VOTE

[NV Whino]

1. Well, that's not quite a butterfly ballot

But it is important information. Thanks for posting.

[LynzM]

2. Wow, that is terrible form design.

I've done some (admittedly not ballots) for work over the last 4 years... if "Democratic" is to be a default at the top of the page, the voter should never have to fill that field in. It's an invitation for mistakes. GAH!

[still_one]

4. I am editing my original post because this is happening in Southern California

This is actually quite serious and I wasn't thinking properly

[LynzM]

5. I believe that...

But if they asked for a Democratic ballot, why would they not receive one that had Democratic pre-marked? I guess there would be issues with that, though, too, in case where they were given the wrong ballot. So you're taking it out of the distributor's hands and into the voter's hands to do it correctly. I suppose, on second thought, that that kind of makes sense. My bad.

[still_one]

7. My absentee Democratic ballot sure didn't have that, and the nonpartisan one

didn't have any candidates. I am in Santa Clara County, and maybe the absentee ballots are structured different then those at the polls

When I used to go to the polls instead of voting absentee, if you were nonpartisan, you would request which ballot you wanted, i.e. Democrat, Independent, or nonpartisan

If that has changed then I am wrong, but if you read the ballot that the OP referenced, it CLEARLY states what to do. I am still surprised if they share a Democratic ballot with a nonpartisan ballot

[still_one]

3. self-delete something is very screwed up in southern California /nt

[still_one]

6. Ignore my other posts, that is from la county, I am in Northern Ca. Something is not right

down there. Nonpartisans and independents are going to make the difference in this campaign

This is bad

[still_one]

8. I just told my daughter who is going to school in LA to warn her non-partisan friends

Thanks for the heads up

[rumpel]

9. thanks for the heads up

this is troublesome...

we will still use InkaVote - I wonder whether the machine will spit it out on something like an extra bubble to tell a voter as if it was an undervote - they won't be able to program it as such....