FL ballot

[Katinfl]

Just got my FL ballot in the mail. It looks different. The candidates names are listed starting with trump/Vance, then Harris/Walz, then the senate race, etc. The candidates names are just listed down the line with no special demarcation as to the party. Yes, it states Rep./Dem. Opposite the name but they all run together. Maybe I am wrong, but this ballot from Hernando County looks a little confusing. Intelligent people should have no problem, but low information voters that are not paying attention could easily get confused. I know what I am talking about because I was an assistant precinct coordinator here from 2008-2016 and I have seen plenty of voters pass through the voting booth who do not know exactly what they are doing. That’s what I have seen previously and I live in a red county. Don’t even get me started on Amendment 4, the abortion ban. The way it is worded is confusing and long-winded. Says nothing about the 6 week ban. It mentions that this may result in more cost to the state, fewer live births, etc. and all the bad results that could happen. Very misleading. I have to keep reminding myself to vote “yes” because one could get confused very easily. I think that is what they count on……..No, I KNOW that is what they count on.

[SheilaAnn]

1. Palm Beach County was very precise and easy to fill out. I agree on that one ammendment, I had to read twice.

n/t

[jimfields33]

2. Wasn't it the Democratic Party of Florida that requested

Amendment 4? Wouldn’t they be in change of wording in order to get signatures? Maybe it will not be as difficult to vote since a vast amount had to read it and sign the amendment request. Fingers crossed.

[samsingh]

3. at least it's not an effing butterfly ballot

[jimfields33]

5. No shit. What an embarrassment that was.

I’ll never forget the guy with the magnifying glass trying to figure out what the voter intended.

[samsingh]

9. yes, they effing did. what an absolute stupid nightmare that was

we never would have had bush without that stupid ballot. That one person changed the course of history.

[In It to Win It]

4. Don't get me started on Amendment 4. The "financial impact statement" is pure Republican bullshit

[jimfields33]

6. And the Democratic Party in Florida agreed to it? Seems odd.

Florida democratic leaders are fighters and would never allow anything nefarious to be part of something so important.

[In It to Win It]

7. Of course not, but Democrats didn''t have control of the language. Republicans did.

[jimfields33]

8. That's beyond crazy. Republicans didn't want the amendment

at all.

[In It to Win It]

10. Yes, but after the Florida Supreme Court approved the amendment, there wasn't much they could do

to take it off the ballot.

The next best thing they could do was use their political power to gum up the works and they had control over the financial impact language. They used that little bit of power to fill the amendment's financial impact statement with bullshit.

The petitioners for the amendment sued to remove that clearly bias language, but lost so the Republican language stayed on the ballot. What is to be expected when your courts are stacked with rank partisan Republicans?

[jimfields33]

11. Grrrrrrr. Is it any wonder the republicans are despised by most

of the population.

[Mariana]

12. Unfortunately, the Republicans aren't despised by most of the population of Florida.