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Personal Choice confuses some voters [Utah]
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Nov 09, 2006 11:04pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
| News Date | Friday, November 10, 2006 04:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With her fidgety 4-year-old son by her side, West Jordan resident Wendy Ormsby tried to vote quickly on Tuesday. Wanting to bypass the straight party option, Ormsby tapped "personal choice."
And so did 13,400 other Salt Lake County voters, many of whom were equally as confused by the effect of their selection. Personal Choice, with its accompanying smiley face logo, is actually a small political party. So when Ormsby went to vote for U.S. Senate, she noticed that Personal Choice candidate Roger I. Price already had her support.
"That is a tricky little deception," she said on Wednesday. "Luckily, I could just override what I have done." The Personal Choice party has only been around for two elections and has baffled voters both times.
In 2004, 11 percent of straight party voters picked the Personal Choice party. This go around, that number increased to 14 percent. |
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