Ballot usability / information design

[Roz Ault <ault -at- faxon -dot- com>]

Here is an actual photo of the contested ballot from Palm
Beach County:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ballot110800.htm

Here is an image of the sample ballot that was sent to voters in that
county.  Observe that it does not show how the holes are arranged:

  http://www.pbcelections.org/Sample%20Ballots/g1.jpg

Here is a study of the ballot from the point of view of information
design, showing how else it could have been done:

  http://www.ruddick.com/tim/ballot/

Here is another analysis by Dan Bricklin:

  http://www.bricklin.com/log/ballotusability.htm


Links courtesy of Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service
<rre -at- lists -dot- gseis -dot- ucla -dot- edu>


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