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Making Florida Ballots Look Clear

If you live in Nebraska and you want to repeal the death penalty, vote “retain.” If you want to retain the death penalty, vote “repeal.” And if you want to execute the guy who wrote the ballot question, read the statute he had to follow. Capital punishment is on the ballot because Nebraska’s legislature passed a bill to abolish it and citizens submitted a petition to let the voters decide. According to the state attorney general’s office, Nebraska law says that in such cases, the question to be put to voters is whether to repeal or retain the statute the legislature passed — in this case, the bill abolishing the death penalty. (AC/Omaha World Herald) ...So if next year you’re asked whether to move to a better way of phrasing ballot questions, vote “retain.”