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In git.general Ryan Thompson <news@flamtap.org> wrote:

> First, it's "affect" not "effect." Second, if you're too stupid to follow
> directions or too stubborn to ask for help if you're confused about the
> ballot, then you deserve to have your vote screwed up. (And the Democratic
> party deserves you :)

I will agree that Affect is a verb, and Effect is a noun.  Webster's is
either wrong or relying upon some bizarre archaic interpretation.

Secondly, they showed the ballots on TV, and I can see how the mistake
would be made.  It was a two page deal, capable of being folded down the
center.  It looked like...



_____________________________

	BUSH      ----------->  X  ________________________________

_____________________________   X  <---------   BUCHANAN

	GORE      ----------->  X  ________________________________

_____________________________	X  <---------   BROWNE

	NADER     ----------->  X  ________________________________
________________________________


...where you had to punch a hole through the X.  Since Buchanan and Browne
were on a separate page, I could see how someone could look at the page,
see BUSH first with an X, and then see GORE second and mark the second
X.  Bear in mind that the arrows weren't so big and names weren't so
small... had party and VP squeezed in there too.