Another friend points out that “The ballot in Florida, and especially South Florida, is a multi-amendment 8 page beast” so “vote early, or you could be in line for hours.” This is a really interesting and important problem that I haven’t heard a word about, even from heroines like Barbara Simons who’ve done powerhouse work in the field of election integrity. We take the “sacred” moment of voting for granted, without recognizing how much elections have changed — for example, with the rise of referenda. It goes to show how regressive most public discussion about electoral procedures is — consumed with battling against lying, gerrymandering, purging instead of thinking ahead about how to design deeper systems that bring together reliable info and an integral moment when people make their choices.