I’d like to start a conversation on how we can amend the vocabulary on voting ballots to go straight to the point ask yes or no questions as well as have candidates labeled properly like they used to do in the past with their party affiliation. In the last few elections I’ve seen little old ladies asking for clarification on what questions mean and what party affiliation is a certain candidate. Thoughts on how to accomplish this and actually get it done?
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What a great idea! In healthcare, when creating patient-facing material (it’s so funny to me that they call it that) the language used must be simple so a vast majority of people can fully understand it. It’s recommended that whatever is presented be readable at no higher than a 6th or 8th-grade level. This should absolutely also apply to, for lack of a better term, voter-facing material.
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I have found myself looking candidates up on my phone to see what party affiliation they have because it was excluded.
My fear especially with questions about issues that are so vital today like abortion is that if a question to eliminate it is read wrong, people that don’t understand the question will agree.
We need to have clear concise verbiage that everyone will understand.
If anyone can initiate this it would be a great service to voters.
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Funny. I’m seeing commercials to vote yes for amendment 4 if you want to do away with the abortion ban but they don’t even show the question that will be asked reinforcing the need for clear vocabulary on ballots. A misinformation campaign can fool voters by just telling people how to vote instead of having clear wording.
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So I have voted early and noticed positions labeled nicely showing Dem and Rep but the judges were not labeled. I had to look up what governor appointed them… they should be label as well.
The questions were very wordy as usual and that is the point of my posted topic.
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Yeah; you always have to research your options BEFORE you get to the polls. [Reminder to all out there, including people who won’t be voting Harris in safe Blue States…]
I don’t know about you @eagle1 and @patrie, but it’s extremely hard, at least in Tennessee / Memphis, to find information about down-ballot races. There are sometimes candidates I have no idea about despite reading the local paper and searching. But I do find some info and campaign sites, so it’s helpful where it’s there.
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I found candidates well labeled this time around. My issue was with the circuit judges. What I did was I looked up what governor appointed them and voted accordingly.
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Thanks for that! Bad assumption on my part. That’s why we have this forum…
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