Comments on: November Ballot Order

By: Credit Repair Forum

Credit Repair Forum — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:57:50 +0000

I think it is crazy the way they set up ballots. There should be one standard for how they are, and we should start teaching our kids how to vote in school.

By: Champaign County Clerk

Champaign County Clerk — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:07:17 +0000

there’s a number of systems for this across the country. randomizing by precinct, a randomized alphabetical order, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a change proposed in Illinois. I dislike having the randomization by precinct because I like having the ballot look the same for every voter. But I like the randomized alphabet.

By: thechampaignlife

thechampaignlife — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:38:34 +0000

Has any election law consideration been given to permitting randomized ballot position, as in each ballot is different, not just randomizing a master ballot? Seems to me that a system could be trivially designed to support this, perhaps by way of a bar code or OCR matching the vote cast to the candidate, and would negate ballot position as a consideration in election outcome.