Initiatives related to ranked choice voting in political primaries and general elections were on the ballots in eight states and the District of Columbia.
Was talking to my mother earlier, saying how excited I was there was a ballot measure for switching a lot of primaries in CO to ranked choice. She said she they had ranked choice in VT a little while back, and she didn’t like it, and that it was too confusing. I was sad and surprised. Never occurred to me that anyone would object to a better method, especially for a reason that sounded like “oh I just don’t know about all these new fangled computers”. Oof.
Feels like alternate voting has the same issues that a lot of new ideas do, which is PR and UX (I’m looking at you, science!). I hope we don’t have to wait for old clueless people to die off before things change.
That’s the number one complaint I’ve seen, actually the only complaint I’ve seen from real people.
“It’s something important, I don’t want to mess it up, I don’t understand what it’s asking me to do, it’s not doing what I’m telling it to do, it’s broken, why don’t they just leave it alone? Are they trying to trick me?”
What was so confusing about it?
Flat size 12 font at waist height from a standing position,
First time they had ever seen it
Some weird shit about multiple votes per page (I still don’t know what they meant)
Votes being out of order
I wouldn’t classify them as old and clueless, I’ve met people in there 40s who wouldn’t be able see the screen of what I described above (which is how it was described to me) and would need assistive tech to do so. That’s not even acknowledging the horrible UX that very well lead to mistakes.
Was talking to my mother earlier, saying how excited I was there was a ballot measure for switching a lot of primaries in CO to ranked choice. She said she they had ranked choice in VT a little while back, and she didn’t like it, and that it was too confusing. I was sad and surprised. Never occurred to me that anyone would object to a better method, especially for a reason that sounded like “oh I just don’t know about all these new fangled computers”. Oof.
Feels like alternate voting has the same issues that a lot of new ideas do, which is PR and UX (I’m looking at you, science!). I hope we don’t have to wait for old clueless people to die off before things change.
That’s the number one complaint I’ve seen, actually the only complaint I’ve seen from real people.
“It’s something important, I don’t want to mess it up, I don’t understand what it’s asking me to do, it’s not doing what I’m telling it to do, it’s broken, why don’t they just leave it alone? Are they trying to trick me?”
What was so confusing about it?
Flat size 12 font at waist height from a standing position, First time they had ever seen it Some weird shit about multiple votes per page (I still don’t know what they meant) Votes being out of order
I wouldn’t classify them as old and clueless, I’ve met people in there 40s who wouldn’t be able see the screen of what I described above (which is how it was described to me) and would need assistive tech to do so. That’s not even acknowledging the horrible UX that very well lead to mistakes.