The Art of the Vote: Who Designs The Ballots We Cast?

This article is about how ballots are designed, who designs them, and the effects they can have. One thing the article mentioned is how changing one design element to fix a potential problem can create a new problem. In the 2000 presidential election, Florida increased the font size on their ballots for older voters, but in doing so, created confusion regarding filling out(punching) the form as the voter names became misaligned.

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