Probably better but still confusing. Faced with a paper like that I'd reach for my pencil and use thye writre-in slot at the end, even if I wanted to vote for one of the candidates on the list.

And at least I wouldn't have had my vote dumped on the grounds I made my chad pregnant, or didn't make it pregannt enough, because I didn't poke the button hard enough.

And in any case and this is a real question, not rhetorical,or anything - how do these clapped out machines cope with write-in votes? Surely the existence of a write-in option means that, since they don't have optical scanners, any vote that is rejected because the machine hasn't identified a hole has to be checked manually in any case? Has this in fact been done? Does the Supreme Court know this?

Is it true that there have been people in Washington criticising the election arrangements in Haiti? I think chutzpah is probably the right word for that...