Voting in Florida Already Getting Weird
Absentee ballots are arriving with two contradictory sets of instructions about how to mark a vote, see story here and excerpt below:
Kelley Moore opened up his absentee ballot Friday and began reading the instructions. When it came to marking the ballot, the more he read the more confusing it became.
The official printed ballot was clear enough.
It said to mark choices with a No. 2 pencil. But a mimeographed instruction sheet provided by the office of Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson cast doubt on that. The sheet said to use black or blue ink or a dark pencil.
"I thought about it awhile and I decided to call and ask," said Moore, 59, a retired salesman who lives on Davis Islands. "They (at Johnson's office) said the information about the No. 2 pencil was incorrect. I was told to use a dark pen.
"But then I thought, what if I use a pen and I don't follow the instructions on the ballot - will they throw it out?"
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