[Ragirl]

Minority voters would be disenfranchised due to old equipment. Injunction blocking the recall election.

[ConservativeMan55]

Blasted! This equipment is the same equipment they used for the last election!

[CoolGuyVic]

"Minority voters would be disenfranchised due to old equipment."

What's up with these people? They don't like the "old" equipment and they downright hate the "new" computerized voting.

Just what kind of voting do they want? Would big pictures of the candidates that the voter would circle be okay with them?

[TheBattman]

What a total pile of crap. The latest numbers I just heard on Fox News was that the ruling covers counties that represent 44% of California voters. If this ruling covers 44% of voters, how could it be strictly disenfranchising minority voters? Do they give different punch card ballots to white people?

Where was the ACLU just this last Fall when Gray-out Davis was re-elected? After all, the same punch card system was used for that election.

Furthermore, woudl the ACLU even be involved if Gray-out was way ahead in all the polls? I don't think so.

And on to my own personal thoughts on voting in general - If you cannot vote properly on any of the current systems (assuming that it's not a computer ballot that has lots of software bugs like they have experienced in Little Rock, Arkansas), then you probably don't have the mental capacity to vote in the first place. This is especially true with the help that is available at 99.9% of polling places (that are often staffed with volunteers who are quite liberal....).

Are these liberal judges trying to say that minorities are idiots or retarded? After all, the minorities are supposedly the only ones who get disenfranchised by these ballots....

[My2Cents]

Minority voters would be disenfranchised due to old equipment.

Our county has used those old machines forever, and it was never a problem for us -- just check to make sure all the chad had fallen away. Basically, the court is saying that some minorities are too stupid to vote effectively.

[scott7278]

Isn't that a racist reason by the 9th? Basically, they're saying that minorites are too stupid to figure out the old machines.

I happen to believe otherwise, that minorities are more than capable of figuring it out -- to say anything but that is ridiculous and offensive. Of course, that is a conservative viewpoint. And yet, we're the ones with the dangerous agenda!