Tired of cramming for today’s midterm elections, local BYU student Michael Kap is calling it quits, confident that if the ballot is multiple choice he’ll recognize the correct answer right away when he sees it in the voting booth.
“If there’s just going to be a series of bubbles and all the potential answers are listed next to them, I’m honestly not too worried about this election,” says Michael, a Senior majoring in engineering who went on to explain that it really is just a matter of simple recall. “Sure, I’ve got to remember to bring the right pencil, but it’s not hard to remember the right answer when they’re all right in front of you on the paper. You can just see the first couple letters and remember that they seem kind of familiar. No memorization needed at all.”
Although Michael did express concern about some of the longer reading portions of the ballot and isn’t sure what textbook all this is coming from, knowing that the ballot is in a multiple-choice format has kept him calm. “Oh, I’ll ace it for sure.” says Mr. Kar, “but honestly, whatever the results are, at least I can tell people I voted.”