Not knowing too much about it… it looks like it is a database error… which while bad is not an indication of any grand conspiracy to swing an election.
“The Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, in a statement provided by Dresner, said the envelope has been in use for “several election cycles” and is a design based on recommendations by the nonprofit Center for Civic Design.
Whitney Quesenbery, executive director of the Center for Civic Design, said in a telephone interview that the two-hole envelopes have been used for more than a decade without any issues in Oregon, an all vote-by-mail state.
“I don’t think there is much to this. I think it’s somebody trying to drum up some controversy,” she said. “I do not think there is any intent, or, in fact, probability this could be used to disenfranchise voters or throw out ballots.”
In fact, the videos posted on Instagram show that it isn’t easy to see a “yes” vote for Newsom’s recall.“
They have used the exact same design for ballots in Oregon for over 10 years.
the narrator places the ballot securely in the envelope, but all that appears in one hole is part of Newsom’s name. She manually moves the ballot around in the envelope to show a small part of the circle where a “yes” vote would go.
In other words, a random Instagram poster plays a bunch of easily played marks…again.
The ballot had to be MANIPULATED…while the envelope was still OPEN…in order to “expose” anything.
And this was a massive red herring anyway. The material appearing on Elder’s website mentions nothing about envelope holes, but using statistical analysis to detect fraud in votes…
…that haven’t been counted yet.
So I could see why one would want to divert attention away from that bit of idiocy.
It’s for low vision people, everyone knows a hole means sign here. If only there was an actual accepted way to communicate on paper with the visually impaired that didn’t potentially expose people’s votes.
That’s right. There is no reason that’s logical. So why is it there? Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the vote can be seen by a simple manipulation?