Thursday, February 19, 2004

And some people will still screw it up

The Tallahassee Democrat (its the name of the newspaper, its not part of the political party) has an interesting article on how the State of Florida is trying to educate the voters in the upcoming election.

The best line of the article I think sums up the entire voting problem.

"The impolite fact is that voting isn't all that hard if you pay even minimal attention and the county does its part. If the equipment doesn't work, or the poll workers can't answer easy questions and they run out of ballots, the voters have a right to be angry. Other than that, if you give voting the thought you'd give a new scratch-off lottery game, you ought to be able to figure it out."


It will be interesting to see how people can still mess up something that is not that difficult. And if people find it so difficult, are they competent to vote in the first place, or drive a car, or raise a child?

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