Reply #53: Having a confusing ballot could account for NC's descrepancy in votes

[R Hickey]

A trick ballot like that can screw up the election just like a butterfly ballot can. North Carolina's ballot alone could have screwed up the results for that state.

The ommission of the presidental race from a straight-party-ticket-vote would confuse any straight-party-voter who was used to marking the ballot the way he/she had always marked it in the past.

A friend of mine here in Wisconsin may have screwed up his ballot this time around, because he first marked the straight party ticket, then added a few votes to some of the individual candidates listed below. If he'd voted for any Republicans, it would have screwed up his whole ballot.

Because of their odd ballot, I think we should seperate NC out of the black-box election-theft senario.

NC was not 'purple' state, polls always showed they were a red state, so there was not that clear of a motive for fraud there.