Voting in Florida - revisited

29.10.2008 | Author: Eric Reiss
Voting in Florida is always a challenge - just ask anybody who fought with the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County back in 2000. This year, Miami-Dade County, my county of residence, forgot to send me an absentee ballot, even though I had sent in the paperwork back in September.

Today, getting nervous as election day approached, I spent 25 minutes on hold before an actual human confirmed my worst fear, "We have no record of your request." Luckily, today was the last day to register for an absentee ballot, so I jumped through the hoops again.

And this time it got through. Here's the mail receipt I just received:

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E-mail received on Wednesday, October 29, 2008


Anyone else notice something odd about this message? Ah, Florida. How can we trust our officials to count our votes correctly when they cannot even figure out days of the week?

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Filed under:  Other stuff , User experience | Tags: design, usability, miami-dade, miami, florida, election, absentee, ballot, mistake, stupidity

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