{"id":6455,"date":"2008-10-01T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2008-10-01T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T21:10:23","slug":"split-presidential-ballot-problems-in-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6455","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ohio Presidential Ballot Design May Cause Lost Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/blog\/archives\/potential_ballot_trouble_in_oh_split_contests\/\">From NYU&#8217;s Brennan Center for Justice today&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">By the our count, at least twelve Ohio counties have split the presidential contest over two columns on their paper ballots for this November&#8217;s election. This &#8220;column split&#8221; often confuses voters and results in double voting in the presidential race and an uncounted vote.  Today the Brennan Center urged election officials and advocates in Ohio to make sure that voters are aware of the split, and to make sure they vote only once for president.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAs a quick glance will show, it&#8217;s no surprise that many voters cast two votes for president when the contest is listed across two separate columns<\/div>\n<p>A sample of the split ballot follows below, and looks like it could result in a lot of spoiled ballots from overvotes, and folks writing in their choice for President <i>in addition<\/i> to filling in the bubble on the first column. More details from Larry Norden at the Brennan Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/blog\/archives\/potential_ballot_trouble_in_oh_split_contests\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Ohio_SplitBallot.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NYU&#8217;s Brennan Center for Justice today&#8230; By the our count, at least twelve Ohio counties have split the presidential contest over two columns on their paper ballots for this November&#8217;s election. This &#8220;column split&#8221; often confuses voters and results in double voting in the presidential race and an uncounted vote. Today the Brennan Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-ohio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}