Primacy Effect - People voting up to 9% more for whoevers name is first...

[p0ck3taces]

As reported by Jon Krosnick, in the 2000 presidential race, George W.
Bush received 9 percent more votes among Californians in districts where he
was listed first on the ballot than where he was listed later. Even in highprofile
elections such as the presidential race, name order in balloting does
make a big difference.

http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/PoliticalProcess/ballotordereffects.pdf

These people pick our presidents... Lol, 9 percent more in some California districts just because his name was first... Wow. Never realized they have to
rotate the names because of this and a lot of places still don't rotate from what I have read.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

"So, who you voting for?"

"Oh, I don't know. The first guy".

heh, makes alot of sense.

 

[handrewrites]

Just like the first result in Google tends to get the most clicks.

Punish the black-hat candidates with lower positions on the ballot and leave us black-hat SEO's alone.

 

[potentialeight]

Sounds like something that should have been in Freakonomics.

 

[lukep]

Oh c'mon people, this can't surprise anyone... The American public is the largest pool of drooling idiots this planet has ever produced... Like a country-sized Special Olympics with ADD.

How could you possibly think they were capable of reading down the ballot and picking someone else?

 

[wheelerboy]

I vote for the last person who was speaking.

 

[bluffey]

Just like the first result in Google tends to get the most clicks.

+1
As usual in google what is on first place - isn't the best quality