Wot's in a Word?

[lsanderson]

All the votes in the City o' New York if'n the Times is right:
At the Polls, With Fingers Crossed
Published: October 27, 2010

The list of failures by New York City’s inept Board of Elections just keeps growing. The primary election was chaotic, with long waits and workers who had not been trained to use the new optical scanner voting machines. Then the board was late sending absentee ballots to military personnel. Incredibly, we are now hearing that the instructions on next week’s ballots include a glaring error: they tell voters to fill in the circle above or next to a candidate’s name instead of below. More