[EM] Paper Ballots, User Interface Failures

[Brian Olson]

Minnesota Public Radio has this excellent piece on their website  
showing 15 (so far, they may be adding more) controversial ballots.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/

All are based on some form of optical scan paper ballot in which the  
voter is supposed to fill in a bubble.
Some of these people must not have tested well in school.
But seriously, these are some of the things that can go wrong with an  
otherwise pretty simple paper ballot.
I hope some good thought goes into future ballot design based on  
things like this.