For any Florida residents: A serious question about the ballot: [View all]

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This year, we know the ballot has been made into a mini-book, the early vote has been shortened in time, and my husband and I have opted to vote by mail.

The biggest problem I have with these ballots are in "non-partisan" races (mainly for Judges) and in deciding how to vote on the amendments. The amendments have always been written as a word salad, even when they were only a paragraph long entry, so as to confuse voters from knowing if they were voting for or against their own best interests.... This year they are multiple paragraphs and contain legal jargon. It's even more confusing than normal.

Does anyone have a helpful website or knowledge of a helping hand to vote in the best interest of the people or in a (Dem favorable manor with the non-partisan races)?

Honestly, this has got to be the most in your face voter suppression tactics on an all out onslaught from every side. The Governor tries pulling registered voters off of rolls in a massive purge, the length of the early vote was shortened, Republican registration firms have been caught at all kinds of shady practices such as only registering Republicans, to destroying Democratic registrations, to dumping fraudulent registration forms onto county election offices, and on top of that, they created a ballot that is long and confusing and will take the avg voter more time to sort through... Making it frustrating for the voter and the wait times longer at the polling place (plus the places that are heavily dem areas or in college areas will end up having limited scan devices and guaranteed, the scan devices will fail or break at these areas, making the process even slower.... Plus the fact that the opti-scan doesn't print out a receipt that the votes one has cast we're properly read; even though, we are voting on paper.

Anyway, is there any place to go that has some real help on making informed decisions and then allowing me to help others to find their way to these sites (if people have their sample ballot marked as they wish to vote before they get to polling places, it will make filling in the bubbles much easier.