An appeal to the NY County Board of Elections . . .

[markpkessinger]

. . . on behalf of middle-aged and older voters: next time around, can you PLEASE have the ballots printed in a slightly larger font?: And in black ink, please, not light blue!

[hrmjustin]

1. I know. The allots are horribly small.

[BeyondGeography]

2. The props on the back were a problem

No question.

[Chan790]

3. Do they not have large-print ballots upon request?

We have them here in MD and my polling place is in a nursing home, last year they sent us so many large-print voter information packets that was all they used there.

[markpkessinger]

5. I don't really need large print

But this was ridiculous -- it was like a 7-point font. It didn't occur to ne to ask for a large-print ballot (and I'm not sure they work with the scanners anyway). But really, one shouldn't have to do that. It wouldn't be that hard to produce ballots that were easily readable by most of the voting population.

[lastlib]

4. When I check in at my polling place, I have to sign in.....

....with a RED ink pen. Dudes, I'm eff-in' COLOR-BLIND! Specifically, RED-GREEN color-blind! (It's called deuteranopia, if you want to look it up--it occurs in 16 percent of the male population fer crissakes!) And I have to sign my name in invisible ink?? WTF?