WE had a Federal Election just the other day here in Canada. The polls closed around 8.00pm or 9.00pm. By the late night news we had a good idea of the results and by the morning papers it was all settled. I cannot believe that forms used in Florida for such an important election were not given a dry run. I was a " Forms Designer" for many years and we always had and "Idiot test" before sending out any large quantity of documents, The test consisted of 100 to 500 people picked at random, and asked to fill in the form. The number of correct/incorrect answers gave us an idea of where the strong and the weak points of the document were. A few amendments and we were ready to go. What happened in Florida is not only embarassing but a complete waste of taxpayers money.
We also had municipal elections at the start of the month, I was able to select my candidates and the ballot paper was scanned and read at the polling station, the results electronically tallied before I left the building. We are a community of about 70,000 people, If we can do it I don't see why Florida and others cannot do it. If they need someone to design their next election ballots I will glady go down to Florida and design them, preferably in January, February or March.