So, your 'state' ballot has every mayor, sheriff, county clerk, etc of every county in the state on it?
Must take forever to fill out
Of course not, those are separate, but what states have the major races different?
but what states have the major races different?
NOne
Which makes your OP even stranger
It won't when you read this:
Attorney Marc Elias, who is representing Nelson’s campaign, suggested Thursday that machine counting — not voters overlooking the race — may be the issue.
“I am pretty confident what you are going to see are markings that were not picked up by the machines or a calibration issue that was not registering that part of the ballot," he said.
If Elias is right, the recount could deliver many votes for Nelson in Broward, a county flush with Democrats. But if the issue instead is voters overlooking the race, Nelson will likely be out of luck, according to election experts.
This wouldn’t be the first time a Florida ballot blunder upended results in an important election. The state has a long history of ballot design issues, including the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County that took center stage in the 2000 Bush vs Gore presidential election and the 2006 ballot layout in the Sarasota congressional race barely won by Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan.
"You can go back and check voter intent, but if it is a design problem and people didn't see the race to begin with, there is nothing you can do about it,” Lawrence Norden, a lawyer familiar with election law and deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.
"If this is the cause of lost votes, it is incredibly frustrating that somehow the state hasn't gotten its act together to make sure ballots are designed in a way that don't cause lost votes. The design was not optimal."
As Florida recounts loom, flawed ballot design may be to blame for questionable voting patterns in Broward County
