The Florida ballot is designed to screw us -- again

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17. My sample ballot here in California is also six pages

But I have 12 measures to vote on.

I received my absentee ballot this week and spent an hour trying to make sense out of just the first two amendments. The solution finally came to me. I called the League of Women's Voters and also my local Democratic Party reps. Both told me to vote no on all 11 amendments, so I did.

My mom taught me a simple but effective way of dealing with measures that are often intentionally made to be complex and confusing:

If after reviewing available materials for several minutes you are unable to get your head around what the measure would really do, vote No. Someone put it on the ballot in order to gain some kind of power. If it's not abundantly clear who would come out ahead and what costs would be incurred by whom, someone is trying to game the system.