Rick Scott wins Senate election becasue of bad ballot design in one county
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https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1064217823348707329
This all on Brenda Snipes, the (Democrat) elections clerk in Broward County who is infamously incompetent. Broward County is super Democrat but 30,000 didn't see where to
vote for Senate.
US ballot papers/election processes in general always seem crazy complicated and overdesigned to me
God damnit.
Because the Constitution gives the states control over elections, and they delegate things like ballot design and shit to the 3,142 counties in the United States. Broward County elections board literally refused
to follow federal ballot guidelines since they don't have to do what the feds advise.
The ballot was fucking huge this year too, you had to actively search up and down the paper to make sure you didn't miss anything
Never been so grateful for the UK's ballot design:
https://www.gravesham.gov.uk/__data/assets/image/0003/219441/Ballot-Paper-Example.png
In Canada each province has a legislative body to administrate and make standards for provincial elections so things like this happen less. It's dangerous to the democratic process that ballots aren't all the same design state-wide in the US.
Do you have to register your affiliation in the UK? We certainly don't in Brazil
Rick Scott steals election...
More like
Hundreds of thousands of old Floridians voted for the biggest Medicare fraudster ever.
Our ballots are all over the place
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/gainesvilleregister.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/c6/dc6de030-1046-11e8-bc36-c7ea7f739a3b/5a8219e2090fb.preview.jpg
It also has a back
No and it's always confused me how parties work in the US, it's as if the two parties are integrated into the fabric of the democratic system itself? With internal primary elections that operate like official state-run elections and everything, never quite understood that
To be fair, a big part of the reason US ballot design is so complicated is that in a lot of cases you are electing a US House Representative, a US Senator, a State Representative, a State Senator, a State Governor, a State Attorney General, at least one State Supreme/Appeals Court Judge, voting on state/local ballot initiatives, and a huge list of other state and local positions. Our elections are a lot smaller and simpler.
The two party system has been around since the Constitution was finished. It started during Washington's presidency, Hamilton's pro-administration party and Jefferson's anti-administration party. Then
those became the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, then the Whigs and Democrats, then the Democrats and Republicans.
If our elections worked like they do currently except it was Alternative Vote and could have propositions on the back of the ballot like in the US, it'd be so much better though. I think both election systems have big issues. I think electing judges is a bad idea, for example.
I dunno what I think about propositions. We'd have had a Brexit referendum years ago, and things like the death penalty could potentially make a comeback
The amount of people I know in the UK who want to bring back the death penalty for pedophiles is astonishing. If that ever got legalized it's a slippery slope.
