Blacks Afraid of Electronic Voting

[Love_Spell_6]

This is the kind of bigotry that only Democrats can get away with....because as we all know...Republicans are the racists.

Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that."

Joanne Bland, the director and co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Ala., told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines are going to intimidate black voters in Florida and elsewhere and suppress their vote in the November presidential election because many blacks are not "technologically savvy."

"The computers really terrify me. The electronic voting -- the new machines -- I think it will turn off a segment in my community, particularly the elderly. We are not as technically savvy, and we are afraid of machines like that, and they (African-Americans) probably won't go [to the polls] and they probably won't ask for assistance, said Bland, who spent the last week in Florida.

"It is going to turn them off totally and I want that to stop," said Bland, who also serves as a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Public Accuracy, which predicts that "several million voters" may be "deprived of voting rights again" in 2004.

When asked if she preferred low-tech punch-card ballots that produced the controversial hanging chads in Florida in 2000, Bland responded, "Now that was low technology to who? People that have been privileged to learn technology? There have been lots of changes in the United States, but if you look at the statistics, our biggest block of voters would be between 40 and 80, so when did those people have access to any kind of technology?"

As an 11-year-old in 1965, Bland took part in the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She has just concluded a speaking tour on the history of the civil rights movement in the Miami area.

"I got the hell out of there Saturday, and I would suggest you do, too. Until we get rid of those Bushes (President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush), we're going to have a problem in Florida," Bland said.

GOP political operatives were quick to denounce Bland's comments.

African-American GOP consultant Tara Setmayer, who has worked on Florida congressional campaigns, called Bland's remarks "insulting" to black Americans.

"I think it's insulting to imply that African-Americans are unable to comprehend or assimilate modern-day technology," Setmayer said.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialRe...20040930a.html

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
This is the kind of bigotry that only Democrats can get away with....because as we all know...Republicans are the racists.

Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that."

Joanne Bland, the director and co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Ala., told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines are going to intimidate black voters in Florida and elsewhere and suppress their vote in the November presidential election because many blacks are not "technologically savvy."

"The computers really terrify me. The electronic voting -- the new machines -- I think it will turn off a segment in my community, particularly the elderly. We are not as technically savvy, and we are afraid of machines like that, and they (African-Americans) probably won't go [to the polls] and they probably won't ask for assistance, said Bland, who spent the last week in Florida.

"It is going to turn them off totally and I want that to stop," said Bland, who also serves as a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Public Accuracy, which predicts that "several million voters" may be "deprived of voting rights again" in 2004.

When asked if she preferred low-tech punch-card ballots that produced the controversial hanging chads in Florida in 2000, Bland responded, "Now that was low technology to who? People that have been privileged to learn technology? There have been lots of changes in the United States, but if you look at the statistics, our biggest block of voters would be between 40 and 80, so when did those people have access to any kind of technology?"

As an 11-year-old in 1965, Bland took part in the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She has just concluded a speaking tour on the history of the civil rights movement in the Miami area.

"I got the hell out of there Saturday, and I would suggest you do, too. Until we get rid of those Bushes (President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush), we're going to have a problem in Florida," Bland said.

GOP political operatives were quick to denounce Bland's comments.

African-American GOP consultant Tara Setmayer, who has worked on Florida congressional campaigns, called Bland's remarks "insulting" to black Americans.

"I think it's insulting to imply that African-Americans are unable to comprehend or assimilate modern-day technology," Setmayer said.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialRe...20040930a.html

Remember in Florida, when all those African American votes weren't counted, thus disenfranchising people based on race? That was f-ed up, stupid republicans.

-RC
--oh, wait, it was FELONS, and not based on race at all? weird

[Kevin]

What I'm getting from it is that she and the reporter here are using a lot of words to say that they think old black folks are too dumb to vote on these machines.

It's amazing that there is no outcry about this woman's dumbass remarks. But I guess you're right. Dems can get away with crap like this. Imagine the outcry if Jeb Bush had said the same thing.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6

African-American GOP consultant Tara Setmayer, who has worked on Florida congressional campaigns, called Bland's remarks "insulting" to black Americans.

"I think it's insulting to imply that African-Americans are unable to comprehend or assimilate modern-day technology," Setmayer said.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialRe...20040930a.html

I'd say that about says it all about this article.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by KSig RC
Remember in Florida, when all those African American votes weren't counted, thus disenfranchising people based on race? That was f-ed up, stupid republicans.

-RC
--oh, wait, it was FELONS, and not based on race at all? weird

You forget the list of 58,000 contained a 95% error rate- disenfranchising 51,000 people for no legit reason.
http://bushflash.com/gta.html
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=1

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
You forget the list of 58,000 contained a 95% error rate- disenfranchising 51,000 people for no legit reason.
http://bushflash.com/gta.html
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=1

You forgot to cite a primary source - I'm unaware of any 3rd-party study that shows Gore won that election.

Provide me that primary-source literature, and I'll gladly recant.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

well, I havent hit the 58,000 that Palant used, but found at least 10,000 people that the Republicans disenfranchised.

One list sent to Florida officials inaccurately contained 8,000 people who had committed misdemeanors—not felonies—in Texas. Another list included at least 2,000 felons who moved to Florida from states that automatically restore voting rights.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ccr-j08.shtml
US Civil Rights Commision Report on Florida 2000

[AnchorAlum]

I see this as all beside the point.
The real story is that this and other items in the news show a thread of commonality:

Florida is again being set up as a flash point by the Democrats to contest the election. Assuming Bush doesn't blow it with another debate debacle so that they don't even need to bother. God help us.

For example, some groups who have held registration drives have turned in the voter registration forms which have not been fully filled out, when Florida law states that all required boxes must be completed. Those not filled out must by law be discarded.
When these were discovered, Secretary of State Glenda Hood warned that some who thought they had registered would be turned away at the polls. The warning brought lots of these activist groups out screaming; they went to a judge who said that the people should be contacted and given the opportunity to fill in all the info so they could then indeed vote.
Hood said that in one county (Duval) alone, the number was around 1,400. When workers tried calling the voters using the phone number they had filled in on the form, the numbers on many were not in service.
So now they show up on 11/2, get turned away, and we now have a group screaming about how a Republican Sec. of State took away their right to vote. CNN will love it. Rather will have an orgasm on screen.

As a Floridian, I nearly gagged, as did other old-time-raised-here people did, when Jimmy Carter, an absolute joke, said that Florida did not meet international voting standards and that they were racist and kept felons from voting.
WHAT THE HECK ARE INTERNATIONAL VOTING STANDARDS?
Fewer than 100,000 people are killed by soldiers while trying to vote?
Less than 2,000 ballot boxes go missing?

The felon law in Florida is very old. In fact it was an old law when Carter carried Florida in 1976, but I doubt seriously that Jimmy cared much about that law back then, do you?