Talk:Ballot

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This page contained a disambiguation between Vote and Ballot (car), the latter page nonexistent, at least at the time. I replaced it with text copied from Ballot design. The history for that page, should anyone care to see it, should still exist there. -Smack 23:27, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 Perspective view of so-called Butterfly Ballot? 2 BALLS 3 Separate article needed on Butterfly Ballot 4 history of ballots

[edit] Perspective view of so-called Butterfly Ballot?

I had not been aware that the Butterfly ballot had to be viewed at an angle.

It looks dreadfully user-UN-friendly!

Can this be the same country that alledgedly lands men on the moon?

Good balloting isn't rocket science!

[edit] BALLS

for a better image of the infamous butterfly ballot, see the cover of Jeffrey Toobin's book Too Close to Call.

[edit] Separate article needed on Butterfly Ballot

This topic deserves its own article, not just a paragraph in the general article on ballot. Esp re the ballot's contribution to the number of mistaken votes for Patrick Buchanan, which would have led to a Gore victory if the voter was not encouraged to make a mistake via poor ballot design.

[edit] history of ballots

Should we include this photo in the article? This is certainly the oldest ballot I've ever seen (still being clutched by the ghost-fingers of Themistocles, apparently) And the photo's already Wikimedia! Hooray!! But, it seems like a short article already...may be unnecessary. However it does nicely reflect the history section. --Marco Passarani (talk) 19:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)