Ohio, Oh No
In class tonight we watched a video about the troubles people had voting in Ohio. It was crazy… some people waited in lines for over two hours; only to find out they were in the wrong line and had to begin again. Why on earth would you put someone through that!?
As Flanders would say, it is all about your user. Make it easy on your user. Only think about the user.
Why on earth would the same not apply to voting stations? Why wouldn’t we want to encourage people with a seamless quick process instead of discouraging voters?
And we wonder why turnout is low... we are driving away people who activity try to vote.
As Flanders would say, it is all about your user. Make it easy on your user. Only think about the user.
Why on earth would the same not apply to voting stations? Why wouldn’t we want to encourage people with a seamless quick process instead of discouraging voters?
And we wonder why turnout is low... we are driving away people who activity try to vote.
posted by Kathie Legg at 11:13 PM
1 Comments:
I agree with all that what happened was terrible. But I don't chalk it up to incompetence or chance. I believe this was a deliberate strategy to disenfranchise minority voters, who are largely Democrats. After all, not only was the Bush Ohio campaign co-chair also the Ohio Secretary of State, but the head of Diebold promised to deliver the election to Bush. The question I had in response to many of the statements that "Kerry blew it," (though that may have been true), is: "What could Kerry or the Democrats have done about the specific issues of 1) too few voting machines in these districts, and 2) the 'black box' voting machines with proprietary code?" I believe these two factors were key to much disenfranchisement.
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