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Building a Better Ballot

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from Governing.com Idea Center
butterfly ballot.jpg
Official ballot, general election, Palm Beach County, Florida, November 7, 2000. From Wikimedia Commons.

 Poorly designed ballots have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in recent elections.

 A new analysis of election ballots by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law found 13 design flaws that continue to plague elections despite the $3 billion Congress set aside to overhaul voting systems in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential vote.