From WRAL:
Election officials began the tedious task of looking at questionable ballots from Tuesday’s election by hand on Thursday.
The ballot instructions showed voters how to complete the arrow on the ballot, but hundreds of people scribbled dots, drew double lines or put the line in the wrong place. The voting machines could not read those ballots.
"They know they’re in there to vote and they don’t really pay attention to the specific instructions," said Cherie Poucher, of the Wake County Board of Elections.
Hmm. Cannot draw a simple line. If this was school, all the way from First Grade to getting a PHD, you would fail. No do over. Here is a sample ballot that was put on the ‘net for Durham County as an instructional tool. Pretty self f’ing evident to me what to do. Especially the part that says: READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE VOTING! Nuff said?
Posted over at the Command Post Election 2004.
