Electronic voting machines are scary?!

[One Bad Pig]

News: [url=http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200409\SPE20040930a.html

Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says[/url]]
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...

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And black Demo-libs wonder why they're not taken seriously. When I voted in the last (2002) election, I lived in a predominantly black (and Democrat) neighborhood. We used electronic voting machines. I didn't see anyone quaking in fear, though.

Black people can think just as well as anybody else. It would be nice if their own leaders gave them the benefit of the doubt.

[Twilly Spree]

I think its the widespread use of electronic voting machines with no paper trail that scare people, especially down in Flordia.

[elysian]

Unfortunately Democrats have a long history of keeping both women and minorities "in their place."

The worst thing Democrats could do to their cause would be to admit that minorities don't need hand outs, but true equality: equality that includes accountability and leaves no room for the "I'm a victim" mentality.

Don't liberals find this assumption offensive? "Blacks are afraid of electronic voting machines." If someone substituted "Whites are afraid of electronic voting machines" the person asserting this would be written off as a loony. Why is making such a ridiculous assumption any different when you are dealing with fellow human beings who happen to have a darker skin color? I'm outraged that someone would stereotype Black people in such a way as to assert that they are intellectually or culturally inferior. Quite frankly I'm tired of it. It's demeaning- and I'm white!

And Black so-called leaders have sold out to the Dems years ago- they sold out to mass genocide of Black children in supporting abortion "rights" and in marginalizing Black men by not honoring their humanity enough to hold them accountable for their children (welfare instead of fathers for children.) Same goes for poor Whites. Instead of supporting people in getting a practical education (in schools held accountable by parents and local communities rather than controlled by corrupt unions and top-heavy administration) and rewarding them for gainful employment, the Dems simply promise handouts. They might as well be saying, "Sell your soul for government cheese" or "let us subsidize your drug habit." The Dems want minorities (and to a lesser degree, women) to remain enslaved: handouts instead of meaningful vocation, welfare in exchange for fathers and families, and governmentally imposed silence of any dissent from people of conscience and the church.

Franklin County, OH has used electronic voting since 1994. Voters here - of all colors- have no problem using the machines. They are very easy to use and by state law they do have to generate a hard copy of each vote (retrieved from the storage disc in the machine) for the record.