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Scoop Images: How Not To Design A Ballot Paper

Published: Fri 10 Nov 2000 09:56 AM

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The Palm Beach County US Presidential Election ballot paper that has the world in a spin.

During voting on Tuesday 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County Florida voted for both Al Gore and Pat Buchanan. There votes were later discarded by electoral supervisors.

It appears clear - and even Pat Buchanan has acknowledged - that had this ballot paper been less confusing then Vice President Al Gore would have won the State of Florida and therefore the US Election.

Alastair Thompson

Scoop Publisher

Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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