Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Not that theory

In this NYT piece, "Gadsden is the only majority-black county in Florida and one of the poorest, with high unemployment and illiteracy rates and, in 2000, an outmoded voting system that had been in place for decades. Its demographics are similar to parts of Duval, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and other counties that had high rates of ballot spoilage: an investigation by The Miami Herald and USA Today found that 83 of the 100 precincts with the largest numbers of discarded ballots were majority black."

In Taiwan, the toughening of the valid vote standard results in high rates of ballot spoilage in high illiteracy rate area, such as Yunlin(雲林).

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