Re: SERIOUS PROPOSAL: Let's all vote again

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From: Matt Jensen (mattj@newsblip.com)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 20:55:41 PST

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Sandor Spruit wrote:

> ... For someone with even the slightest bit of
> experience with user interfaces, I think it's obvious there's lots of
> room for improvement wrt the ballots shown on tv :(

On top of bad UI design, imagine you're running on an unreliable windowing
system where the checkboxes might show up plus or minus ten pixels from
the labels they're supposed to line up with. (That is, the ballot can
jiggle around.) 

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* actually, in the Florida ballot they would be radio buttons, not
checkboxes :-)

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This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Nov 17 2000 - 22:22:02 PST s Austin Powers-style toothiness is, I think, mainly due to seeing a lot
>of positive American media images these days.

(I was going to mention Austin Powers, but Mike Myers is Canadian, so
arguing against him as an example of "bad American comedy" wouldn't be
right.)

Tony. 

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