Holly: Election workers are slogging through a laborious and expensive recount in Florida as the races for U.S. Senate, governor and commissioner of agriculture are too close to call. There’s also some weirdness in the results. In Broward County, for starters, a ridiculous percentage of voters – 3.7 percent – left the Senate vote box blank. Zounds! That’s a lot of “undervoting.” In typical fashion, there’s the partisan mudslinging. But the fact is, the race may have been sullied by poor ballot design. Mark Wilson of Fast Company sums up that scenario: “Every county across the U.S. is allowed to design their own voting ballot. In the case of Broward County, the ballot begins with a long list of instructions on how to vote. Right below this long column sits the Senate race box. It’s plausible that voters who skimmed the instructions may have skipped right over the Senate race box. Their eyes went straight to the governor’s race instead, which appears clearly on the top of the page, one column over from the instructions.” This explanation is picking up a great deal of credible steam from main stream media – and more significantly – from design experts. It also underscores how essential …