Second, there is little evidence to suggest that elaborate and costly ballots reduce spoilt ballot rates or are essential tools for illiterate voters.
So last week a number of the state's prominent blacks and civil rights organizations banded together on a drive to reduce the ballot rejection rate in future elections.
Although some voters insisted on sticking with their mismarked ballot, the rate of double votes was low, typically less than one half of 1percentt, compared with 4percentt in Palm Beach County.
Each committee member gets a ballot and rates the films seen on a scale from 6 to 10.
In Grozny, journalists visited the Octyabrasky district, where the election secretary said more than half of the 1,956 registered voters had cast ballots, a rate of that would have meant 180 an hour at that time.
What little data we have suggest that jurisdictions have widely variable numbers of provisional ballots and markedly different ballot discard rates.
In Florida from 2004 to 2010, the period for which the Census Bureau released measures of voting patterns by race, black voters and Hispanic voters cast their ballots at rates that were, statistically, about equal to white voters.
Four people made mistakes with the butterfly ballot, an error rate of more than 7percentt, including three people who made the equivalent of the Gore-Buchanan error.
Nationwide one in 13 African Americans of voting age cannot cast a ballot -- a rate four times the national average.
But in the 8th District, the state board shows that only 50percentt of those who requested ballots — 4,168 out of 8,363 requests — actually cast ballots, a response rate not only lower than the other portions of Fairfax County, but lower than any other congressional district in the state, according to the Connolly campaign.
