Ballots and UI Design
2000-11-10 14:00:35+00 by ebradway 1 comments
One thing's for sure: the problems with this election will spurn alot of spending on vote tallying and ballot design. Anybody know what company makes the tallying systems used in Brevard, Bay or Hernando counties in Florida? Brevard, for instance, has well over 210,000 votes for Bush and Gore combined and got the exact same results on the recount. Bay and Hernando also had reasonably large vote counts with the statisically improbably 0 variation in the recount. Improbable only assuming that the same tally method was used in each county - which I know is not the case. Hamilton County, Tennessee, has moved to the fill-in-the-bubble ballots with a computerized ballot box. I believe this is the kind that was used in Brevard County. Not only was the count more accurate but the ballot itself was much more user-friendly.