Florida Politics has this interesting article about the Reform Party nominee for Governor of Florida, Darcy Richardson. One of the points mentioned in the story is that most Florida counties abbreviate the names of political parties, instead of including the whole party name. The Reform Party in most counties was “Ref.”, which might look like “Rep.” to voters that are either careless or have poor eyesight. Thanks to Peter Gemma for the link.
The Florida U.S. Senate race had no candidates on the ballot other than the Republican and Democratic nominees. But the Florida Governor’s race had the Reform Party nominee and three independent candidates.
How about ALL capital letters – for bad vision folks ???
DEM or is it DAMN RED ???
REP
REF
RR for RIFF-RAFF
Etc.
One more divide and conquer election ???
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PR and AppV — exec/judic offices.
@DR,
The parties names were in upper cases. Words in upper case are harder to interpret. The font was sans serif so letters like E, F, H, I, L, and T look like horizontal and vertical lines. The party abbreviations were right justifies, quite close to a vertical line.
When I saw the sample ballot (this was before I read the BAN entry), I initially read it as “Republican”. I wondered why there were two Republicans. Then I saw that the “REF” was Darcy Richardson, and then I rembered he wasn’t an independent but A Reform’er. But I’m smarter and more discerning than an overwhelming majority of persons, and an even higher share of Floridians, but I read BAN and I know who Darcy Richardson is.