Florida Senator Jose Rodriguez and two other Senators have introduced SB 1386. Among other things, it provides that the Secretary of State will prepare a statewide layout for ballots. Currently each county designs its own ballot layout.
In November 2018, Broward County’s ballot put U.S. Senator and U.S. House at the bottom of the left-most column, underneath a large area that contained voting instructions. Then, at the top of the middle column, were the gubernatorial candidates, followed by less important offices. Thousands of Broward County voters didn’t see the U.S. Senate and U.S. House races that were at the bottom of the first column. Their eyes glazed over the first column, so they never noticed they were not voting for the congressional races.
If the bill is signed into law, the Secretary of State’s layout will be used in all counties. Presumably the Secretary of State’s office will pay better attention to good design than Broward County did in 2018.
They’d be better off going back to punch cards and chads.
Were is that MODEL Election LAW ???
Office blocs and scanner ballots — too difficult for legislative MORONS to understand ???
Also — much too difficult to put *instructions* on a separate page — with NO offices/ ballot questions.
ANY body in HOOOTTT Florida who is not 100.00 percent senile/corrupt ???
— esp. after Bush v Gore in 2000.
ALL sane States specify by LAW what ballots are to look like.
Dark Age moron regimes play fast and loose — letting a party HACK rig the bsllot forms.
Revive the 1864 Union Army — go South from GA to liberate FL.
The reason why voters eyes glazed over the instructions was that they were written in three languages: English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
La razón por la que los ojos de los votantes se pusieron vidriosos sobre las instrucciones fue que estaban escritos en tres idiomas: inglés, español y criollo haitiano.
Rezon ki fè votè je yo te glase sou enstriksyon yo te ke yo te ekri nan twa lang angle, panyòl, ak kreyòl ayisyen.