American Ballots
Cast your eyes on a variety of sample American ballots. See what US voters have before them as they make their decisions.
Punch cards with hanging chads. Optical scans. Machine with levers. There is a variety of voting technology used not only among the 50 states, but even within each state. (Perhaps this is a reflection of individualism as a value within the United States. Differences in voting technology is also dependent on the funding available within a voting district to make such purchases).
St Louis Missouri Sample Ballot
Miami-Dade County Sample Ballot*
San Francisco Sample Ballot Page 1 (of 6)
San Francisco Sample Ballot Page 4 (of 6)
*Florida was famous in 2000 for controversy over its ballot technology. Miami-Dade County now has a state of the art optical scan voting machine. In the following instructional video, be on the look out for the names of sample candidates! Watch the Miami-Dade County video
Check out the Voting Day table showing differences ans similarities in voting in Australian and the US.
Know one of the estimated 100,000 Americans in Australia? Share with them the resources available to them on Tell an American to Vote.
