Comments on: Voting For Dummies

By: firebird

firebird — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:19:39 +0000

And thats not all how about ENVIROMENTALISM FOR DUMMIES or TREE HUGGING FOR DUMMIES(we all know that tree huggers are dummies)BUNNY HUGGING FOR DUMMIES PETA IS FOR DUMMIES nuff said

By: Blogo Slovo

Blogo Slovo — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 05:18:48 +0000

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By: Kiki B.

Kiki B. — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:01:24 +0000

Ahem! As a former Florida voter(in 2000), I can assure you we weren’t inept. My county went 2 to 1 for Bush. The only ones who don’t know how to vote are in 2 counties on the East Coast of Florida. Those counties are Palm Beach County and Dade County. Hmmmm…the only ones Gore wanted recounted.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 04:41:50 +0000

Argh. Like the people who need the book will read the whole thing. And if they have problems it would still be your fault.

La Shawn, please don’t accuse the inept voters of Florida for embarassing the country when the heavy lifting was actually done by lawyers and other members of the Gore team. Also helping out were some Democratic members of the FL Congressional delegation, like Corrine Brown, who swears that Gore won, and Peter Deutsch, Senate candidate, who claimed to be confused by the butterfly ballot, and that his old Jewish constituents must have been hoodwinked because Pat Buchanan got more votes that the Workers World Party candidate. Of course they were both reelected in 2002, so maybe their constituents actually got the representation they deserved, but I certainly hope not.

By: Kiki B.

Kiki B. — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:54:58 +0000

OOPS!!!! Tom B. at the beginning is actually Kiki B. I’m having an identity crisis.

By: Pat in NC

Pat in NC — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:53:39 +0000

Sorry to tell you it is not a racial thing. Many of the white folk do not bother to read and can not follow simple directions. (I am allowed to say that because I happen to be white). Poor education, poor motivation are not the property of any ethnic group. Printing ballots in newspapers and mailed sample ballots are often not used because of the mentality that if all else fails, read the directions. With voting, it is a one time shot without time to practice in the voting booth.

By: bittern

bittern — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:17:26 +0000

LaShawn, the Census obviously asks what race people are, but voting officials? Is that something they’re supposed to do in FLA?

I’d read that the Florida elections officials were throwing people with the same names as felons off the voting rolls, allegedly for the purpose of decreasing the number of registered Democrats. If true, that doesn’t really fall into the “tough luck” category.

By: Frank Zavisca

Frank Zavisca — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:50:15 +0000

How insulting it must be to intelligent Black people when White liberals tell them – in PC language – that they are too stupid to read and follow directions for voting.

Where is the rage against these jerks?

By: RepJ

RepJ — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:00:24 +0000

Aren’t there moniters at the polling places to help people with their ballots?

By: LB

LB — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:39:22 +0000

Dear, actus. I’ve seen more things and have heard more stories about Jim Crow than I can to even imagine. I don’t need advice on which Hollywood movies to watch.

By: actus

actus — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:34:41 +0000

” Juan Gonzalez writes about the apparent ineptitude…I mean, disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida.”

When Government Depends on the consent of the governed, I’d say the onus is on the government to make ballots readable. The ineptitude of the voter should be a problem, not solution, for the government.

By: meep

meep — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:33:22 +0000

About Palm Beach … maybe I’m misremembering the community, but if I remember correctly, it’s not exactly a concentrated area of uneducated black folks. Indeed, if I remember correctly, it’s mainly old Jewish folks (well, and some other old white folks)… and I don’t think this group skews poor.

So I think we can safely say stupidity and incompetence are fairly spread around the electorate, no?

By: mdeberry

mdeberry — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:29:21 +0000

continued from yesterday’s e-mail…

I don’t care anymore about ‘reaching out’ to black folk in general or black liberals in particular. They and the Democrat Party deserve each other. When we as a people stray away from the biblical principles that brought us out of slavery, out of Jim Crow, and into knowledge and blessing of God, then we should expect the adverse consequences of our folly. I understand that we must continue to teach, and preach those values and principles and traditions that many of us live out every day. Even though we sell ourselves out for a few crumbs from government… It is madening to me listening to the black elite and reading the nonsense they put out in the mainstream media, giving the world the impression that we will forever be victims of circumstance in this country. Please!

By: AWG

AWG — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:18:59 +0000

A number of people complain about punchcard voting machines, saying that the ballots are “too confusing”. (Mind you, I’ve never had a problem with them, and to my memory neither has anyone at the polls at the same time I was.) Others complain that punchcard machines are “out of date”, and that they should be replaced immediately. (I’ll grant you that there are some rather old machines out there that could stand being replaced with newer models.) Nonetheless, I find them infinitely preferable to touch-screen voting machines, and I’m not the only one (my Dem-for-life father and similarly-inclined sister share the sentiment, for starters). The very nature of how those machines work just screams “prone to voter fraud” from my perspective. Complain about hanging, dimpled, and otherwise-abused chads all you want, the punchcard system is still extremely accurate, when done properly, and has the added benefit of a true physical record of each vote cast. Just try to tell me that a digital touch-screen machine can offer such a thing; I’ll laugh in your face.

By: ThePrecinctChair

ThePrecinctChair — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:09:49 +0000

I’ve always found it interesting that Jesse Jackson considers the Florida election invalid because of the butterfly ballot. Does he consider the election of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to be invalid due to the use of the butterfly ballort in Illinois?