Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Voting weirdness continues.

"U.S. Senate candidate James Webb's last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville because of a computer glitch that also affects other candidates with long names, city officials said yesterday.

Although the problem creates some voter confusion, it will not cause votes to be cast incorrectly, election officials emphasized. The error shows up only on the summary page, where voters are asked to review their selections before hitting the button to cast their votes. Webb's full name appears on the page where voters choose for whom to vote."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Weirdness, what a nice word for it. I won't attribute to malice what is probably just stupidity. On the ballot
James "Jim"
James "Jim"
James "Jim"
and lastly
James "Jim"

Someone forgot that people have names longer than 11 characters and spaces.

ellroon said...

I bet they would change this in a flash if the name that was snarfed was Republican. Just a guess....