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Not exactly karma: political note
These are Andy Tannenbaum's notes on one House race this year, Texas district 22:
Were this RISKS, PGN would make notes on usability and advise that if you're selecting a last-minute write-in candidate, you should pick one whose name is easy to spell. I'm wondering how they'll count votes for, say, Secula-Gibbs, Gibbs, Sekula, and so on.
This is Tom DeLay's district. The ethically challenged Congressman got on the ballot before his association with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff got him indicted. Quick like a bunny he moved to Virginia claiming he was no longer a Texan so his name could be stricken from the ballot and some other Republican could take his place. The Texas courts didn't buy the instant Virginian idea and so his name is on the ballot but he is not running. Texas Republicans are now running a write-in campaign for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, a wealthy Houston dermatologist. Writing in her name would be hard enough if the voters could actually write on the ballot, but due to the voting equipment, they have to spell it out character by character (with no hyphen available) using a trackball.
Were this RISKS, PGN would make notes on usability and advise that if you're selecting a last-minute write-in candidate, you should pick one whose name is easy to spell. I'm wondering how they'll count votes for, say, Secula-Gibbs, Gibbs, Sekula, and so on.