Massive undervoting in several Florida counties, likely caused by bad ballot design.

Upgraded voting machines and improved ballot design.

Ms. LePore has been blamed for the ballot design that many say prevented them from selecting the candidate they wanted.

Unfortunately, our election system leaves ballot design to the whims of local officials, who often make bad choices.

Other observers say voters were simply confused by the ballot design and didn't see the Jennings-Buchanan race.

Examine 67 different ballot designs in Florida, with guides to the way they work.

This could conceivably have been the result of bad ballot design, but many of them insisted that they looked hard for the race.

Legal precedents make it difficult to win a lawsuit over ballot design, but a substantial error in the software might have been grounds for a new election.

Alternately undervotes can be unintentional and caused by many factors including poor ballot design.

The New York Times did its own analysis of how mistaken overvotes might have been caused by confusing ballot designs.