Default choices pre-filled on ballots?

Er, wow.  Maybe old news to you folks, but somewhat surprising to me. Just FYI.
One might say a few things about the fact that the default value
reportedly was varied by native language too.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/26/1428226/Voting-Machines-Selecting-Default-Candidates

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