I wonder if, when I take a college entrance exam and perhaps I don't score quite high enough, I could sue the college under the premise that the computerized grading system misread my intentions on some of the questions. I wonder if they would grant me a "hand-graded" entrance exam to determine my true intent?
My point is: At 18 years of age (at a minimum), we are all responsible adults (or so says the law), and if, while in the voting booth, we have marked the wrong candidate by mistake, we should be responsible enough to ask for a new ballot. Or is the "peer pressure" so intense that we are afraid to take action in correcting our own mistakes ourselves?
Last election there were some 15,000-plus votes voided because of voter error, yet no one even batted an eye at them. Because of the high stakes this time around, it is a much different scenario. I submit it's the individual voter's responsibility to vote cautiously and deliberately. If he or she does it incorrectly, it is his or her own fault for not paying close enough attention to detail.
But, of course, in America we are always the victims, never willing to accept the outcome of our own actions.
Dan Muhlestein
West Valley City