Butterfly Ballot Designer Speaks Out. By ABC News. December 21, 2000, 9:48 AM. Dec. 21 -- Palm Beach election official Theresa LePore, who designed the ...

The butterfly ballot, as it came to be known, was designed by then-Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LaPore. She was trying to help seniors see the 10 candidates for president by ...

The butterfly ballot, for instance, is almost entirely extinct. But races that include many candidates remain a vexing challenge for ballot designers — and voters need to know when to pick just one.

The 2000 presidential election, 24 years ago in November, was the time that Palm Beach County likely decided a presidential election — divided by a mere 537 votes. Vice President Al Gore, a ...

Butterfly ballots like those used in Palm Beach County, Fla., for the 2000 presidential election are confusing and biasing, and election officials would do well to consider social science theories ...

Their analysis concludes that the butterfly ballot design directly contributed to enough unexpected votes for Buchanan to potentially alter the election outcome in Florida. REF.

Butterfly Ballot Blues Satirist Harry Shearer performs his just penned song about the woes of being an elderly Jewish voter in Palm Beach County Florida. The song is a blues number as if sung by a ...

The most haunting case in Florida history is the “butterfly ballot” in Palm Beach County in the 2000 presidential election, in which a misaligned design led an unusually high number of people ...

What was the butterfly ballot? The 2000 presidential election came down to Florida: About 2k Palm Beach County votes might have gone the wrong way.

The butterfly ballot, as it came to be known, was designed by then-Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LaPore. She was trying to help seniors see the 10 candidates for president by ...