A 1938 National Socialist Germany voting ballot concerning the Anschluss of Austria was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab. According to the entry, the ballot asks a question for which the voter is presented with a large circle labelled “Yes” and a smaller circle labelled “No”. The entry describes the discrepancy in circle size as a dark pattern, along with the joining of two very separate questions into a single answer in the ballot text.
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National Socialist Germany: Anschluss of Austria Ballot.
“The text on this voting ballot from 1938 reads asks a question for which the voter is presented with a large circle labelled “Yes”, and a smaller “No”. The circle size discrepancy is a dark pattern, as is the joining of two very separate questions into one answer in the ballot text.”