Grand political roundup

[Dark Holy Elf]

Pretty neat, I liked the poll options.

For the record, I agreed with the majority in every case except the Arrow (that's certainly ambiguous enough to be rejected, to me), the Lizard People (clear enough case of an overvote), and the Underline (that one I don't find ambiguous - it's very clearly a strikethrough).

[Taishyr]

The arrow looks like the pen fucked up, so I'd give it to Franken. Otherwise, yeah. A lot of those are just *toss* worthy.

Also:

LIZARD PEOPLE.

This may merit a fad, if we can figure it out.

[Sierra]

Lizard People is classic, even if it is a waste of a vote.

[NotMiki]

some of them, the pencil one for example, needed a little more context to determine.  if all the other choices but president are in pencil, it's probably a keeper.

I also think the 'arrow' one is runny ink and should be Franken.

An update on the other important aspect of the recount:  Franken won a key court decision to be able to inspect provisional ballots that weren't counted, to see if there are any that were improperly rejected.  The elections court hasn't yet ruled on whether such ballots would count.

[Luther Lansfeld]

That doesn't even look like an arrow to me. It looks like someone's pen messed up.

The Underline should just plain be rejected. Just get a new ballot?

[Dark Holy Elf]

"Just get a new ballot" sums up what... almost everyone whose ballot was shown should have done.

Except the person who signed her/his ballot; that's just idiocy. <_<

[Shale]

And also Lizard People Guy.

[metroid composite]

"Just get a new ballot" sums up what... almost everyone whose ballot was shown should have done.

Eh, the ones where it looks like a tiny ink drop fell into one of the wrong circles, but another circle is massively blacked out don't really seem to merit it.  In a Canadian election where you're only voting on one race, sure: get a new ballot.  In an American election where the ballot has, what, 50 different things to vote on...screw that.  You're going to have an ink-smudge somewhere.