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SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Arts, Design

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ballots are an essential component to a working democracy, yet they are rarely created (or even reviewed) by design professionals. Good ballot design is mainly a matter of following good design principles in general—familiar territory for graphic desig...

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	Roman Mars.
0:04.0	To begin, there is someone our producer Sam Greenspan
0:07.0	would like you to meet.
0:08.0	Can you say who you are and how you know me?
0:11.0	I'm your grandmother.
0:12.0	My name is Jean Greenspan, and I'm Sam Greenspan's grandmother.
0:15.2	Jean-Greenspan is my father's mother.
0:17.3	I call her Grandma Genie.
0:19.2	She grew up during the Great Depression, and because her family got a lot of help from
0:22.6	fDR and the new deal, Grandma Genie is a Democrat.
0:26.6	Always has been, always will be.
0:28.6	Grandma, have you ever voted for a Republican or anyone who wasn't a Democrat?
0:32.4	No, no, no, no, not at all.
0:34.8	Never, never do that.
0:36.2	Always vote for a Democrat.
0:38.0	And so on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the year 2000,
0:42.4	Grandma Jeannie hopped on her three-wheel bike and
0:44.6	pedaled over to the community center in her retirement village. And she did what she
0:48.5	always does. She voted a straight Democratic ticket. Or at least she thought she did.
0:53.0	Grandma, can you tell me where you live?
0:55.0	Oh, now I live in Century Village, West Palm Beach, in Florida.
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