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Posted on 09/25/2003 9:07:02 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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 next to his or her name. That's it. There is no more. If you don't completely punch out the chad or if you are so stupid that you vote for two people in the same race, then the machine that counts the votes will toss out your ballot. That is as it should be. The system has such a low error rate that it is almost negligible.
But what about the Florida election that clinched the White House for President George Bush? Well, I was here. The Democrats have fashioned an urban legend that is a big, fat lie. Whether you like him or not (and I don't), Bush won the Florida vote fair and square. The first count showed him winning. The automatic recount showed him winning. And in fact, every recount, both official and unofficial, showed him winning.
And it was the Democrats, not Bush, who got the courts involved. Every suit they filed failed. In the meantime, the constitutional clock was running out of time. The Democrats were trying to count votes that were dents or hanging chads. All the Supreme Court said was that if you are going to have a recount, you must have one standard by which all ballots are judged — not 67 different ones. But by that time, the clock had run out, and the Democrats' army of lawyers finally chucked it in.
Florida has a lot of stupid and a lot of senile voters, but no one was denied the right to vote and no one stole the election. In Florida, elections are conducted by elected county officials, and in the counties where the Democrats tried to claim fraud, every one of those election supervisors was a Democrat. The Republicans did not steal the election, but the Democrats tried their best to steal it.
Democrats have always been short of morals, but it was the closeness of the election that tempted them into really unethical behavior. To lose the world's greatest political prize by a mere 800 or 900 votes was just too much for some of them to bear. As for the voters too stupid to follow simple directions, those of you who support the universal franchise are to blame. If you want to hand out voter-registration cards to the illiterate and functional illiterates as well as people with two-digit IQs, don't blame voting machines for the consequences.
As I've said before, not being either a "Cal-lee-fornian" or a "Cal-lah-fornian," the recall is none of my business. As a general rule, however, recalls should be reserved for characters guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. It should not be used to correct the bad judgment of the voters. Under our republican system, if we elect the wrong guy, we have to live with him until his term ends.
All of the problems Californians are so upset about are their own fault. There has been no coup or military takeover. The California voters elected every politician from Davis on down. Every one of their ballot initiatives that became law did so because they voted for them. Sounds to me as if they are trying to make Davis a scapegoat for their own bad choices.
The upside of freedom is we are free to make our own choices. The downside is we can make very bad choices. Freedom only guarantees opportunity, never success.
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