Sentence examples for ballot layout from inspiring English sources

Midafternoon By this time, poll watchers, politicians and party activists were visiting polling places to stem the damage they felt was resulting from the ballot layout.

Also, while Republicans have said that Democrats should not complain about the ballot because they had previously approved it, Democratic officials said today that they never approved of the ballot layout used in Palm Beach County.

These complaints may add to the stalemate in Palm Beach County arising from the ballot layout that Democrats said led to the invalidation of 19,000 ballots because of double-voting and to some 3,000 more being mistakenly cast.

African-American voters and community leaders here are calling not just for a recount, but also a re-vote, saying that irregularities at polling places and what they insisted was an illegal ballot layout in Palm Beach County thwarted the true intent of their vote.

Candidates listed first on the ballot paper regularly receive more votes than other candidates, but what role does ballot layout play in this connection?

We identify a natural experiment in Danish local and regional elections involving more than 10,000 candidates on 103 different ballot papers using ballot layout to study ballot position effects.

And yes, navigation can be a bit erratic and the butterfly-ballot layout might not be perfect.

"When you change everything -- the laws, the procedure, the training, the equipment, the ballot design and layout -- this is expected to happen," said the expert, Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center, a Houston-based association that advised Florida officials on the 2000 election.

Between Tuesday and today, hundreds of voters went to the Board of Election office in West Palm Beach to complain that they were so confused by the ballot's boxy layout that they had mistakenly voted for Mr. Buchanan instead of Mr. Gore.

Our findings indicate that the empirical domain of ballot position and layout effects is much wider than suggested by previous research.

Democrats complained most loudly about the vote in Palm Beach County, where they said a ballot with a confusing layout had caused thousands of voters to mistakenly pick for Patrick J. Buchanan when they had intended to vote for Mr. Gore.