They camped outside the county's Emergency Operations Center in West Palm Beach, where the ballots were counted by a three-person panel known as the canvassing board. The butterfly ballot ...

Dec. 21 -- Palm Beach election official Theresa LePore, who designed the “butterfly” ballot that many voters claimed was too confusing and led them to vote incorrectly, says she was just ...

University Park, PA – Butterfly ballots like those used in Palm Beach County, Fla., for the 2000 presidential election are confusing and biasing, and election officials would do well to consider ...

A new look at the notorious Palm Beach butterfly ballot has found fresh evidence that voter confusion may have helped cost Democratic nominee Al Gore the election in Florida. In the scientific ...

By Nate Cohn Theresa LePore, who designed Palm Beach County’s butterfly ballot, with old ballots three years after the 2000 election. Credit...David Friedman We’re still in a post-primary lull ...

The layout of the ballot itself can prompt some voters to miss it and skip it. The most haunting case in Florida history is the “butterfly ballot” in Palm Beach County in the 2000 presidential ...