Your advice will be taken because you quite evidently know something about the whole, confusing ballot.

For the beleaguered New York voter, this week's election brought some good news: The Liberal Party got bumped from the state's cluttered and confusing ballot.

In Jacksonville, thousands of black voters had their votes rejected apparently because of a confusing if not illegal ballot.

They contend that a significant number of voters, particularly the elderly, had difficulty reading what they describe as confusing, poorly designed punch-card ballots.

One line of cases says the key issue is whether a confusing ballot probably affected the outcome of an election; if it did, the election must be rerun.

Four groups of voters say they intended to vote for Vice President Gore but were led astray by an unusual and confusing ballot.

Some local election experts fear that would lead to a flood of frivolous candidates who would clog up an already confusing ballot.

There is no place in our democracy for malfunctioning or broken voting machines, untrained poll workers or confusing ballots.

At its best, the vote would be a confusing yes-means-no procedural ballot that sheds no light on the sensitive and widely misunderstood issue.

Our Constitution does not reserve this right to Americans who can decipher a confusing ballot.