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Please NO, not the chad!

<p>Despite the Help America Vote Act signed in 2002 to improve the electoral system, 32 million registered voters still will be using punch cards in the November presidential election, according to a report released last week.</p> <p>Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Utah will have the largest number of counties planning to use punch cards. Florida, where the election system created the 2000 presidential election stalemate, has replaced all its punch-card machines with either optical or electronic equipment.</p>

It is Election Night 2004. The presidential tally stalls in a near-tie. All eyes turn to a pivotal state, a rich source of electoral votes, where election supervisors scrutinize ballots. Punch-card ballots. Yes, punch-card ballots, the much maligned voting system -- dimpled chad, hanging chad, pregnant chad -- that symbolized Florida's botched election four years ago, politically paralyzed the nation for 37 days and altered the course of electoral history. Punch cards may be gone in Florida, but chads still thrive elsewhere and are actually gaining favor in some quarters. As many as 32 million voters in 307 counties in...

California La La Land The federal judges in California apparently believe that minorities are too stupid to follow directions so simple that a first-grader with average intelligence could follow them. These racists have delayed the California recall election because they believe that the punch-card voting systems in the populous counties discriminate against minority voters. Oh? These same voting machines in these same counties were used to elect Gov. Gray Davis. What's changed between then and now? To use a punch-card system, you find the name of the person for whom you wish to vote and you punch out the chad...

Analysis of the Opinion by the three-judge panel done by Eric Leonard of KFI. He dug into the facts and made some amazing discoveries. Also, there is a total conflict of interest -- the "study" "proving" the errors of punch cards upon which the ACLU based their "facts" was funded by the major maker of electronic voting machines. Major flaws in the stats provided by the ACLU were totally ignored by the judges, plus the judges added into their opinion stuff that was not even being pleaded! Go see it and listen: http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/ This information needs to be gotten out...

Posted on Tue, Sep. 16, 2003 By Katherine Corcoran Mercury News For 25 years, every statewide office-holder in California from U.S. senator to insurance commissioner has been elected with punch-card ballots. But on Monday, a trio of federal judges said those ballots can't be trusted. In the six counties still using punch cards -- central to the federal appeals court ruling -- local elections officials said they've had few problems with the ballots over the years, and that they are confident they could run a fair election using them three weeks from now.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 12, 2001 #350 Contact: Heather Haas (816) 235-1601 Study Refutes Beliefs about Punch-card Voting KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, two widespread perceptions emerged: that punch-card voting equipment was prevalent in counties with a large minority population and that members of lower economic classes are more likely to use punch card and other antiquated balloting equipment. A study authored by Martha Kropf, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Stephen Knack, associate fellow with the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector at...

A three-judge panel of the ultra-liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today heard arguments in the case the ACLU has brought to postpone the CA recall election till March. The ACLU is arguing that the punch card system still in effect in some counties will disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters. In a live report on the hearings, MSNBC's David Shuster (formerly of Fox News, and a seemingly sound reporter) said that "things could not have gone worse in the hearing for the State of California (which is arguing against the postponement)." Shuster said that two out of three of the judges...