An MSNBC story, "Black Votes Disproportionately Tossed," is about an analysis of the Florida vote by the Washington Post. It says, among other things, that heavily black Democratic neighborhoods in Florida lost more presidential votes than did white neighborhoods.
This study says that in Miami-Dade County "precincts where fewer than 30 percent of the voters are black, about 3 percent of ballots did not register a vote for president. In precincts where more than 70 percent of the voters are African American, it was nearly 10 percent."
We’re supposed to assume that this was due to racism. In fact, the story goes on to say, "Such patterns have helped fuel questions in the black community about whether the vote was fair on Election Day."
Fair? You mean it’s not fair when a white person manages to cast a valid vote for president while a black voter doesn’t? Has racism advanced to the point where white people design voting machines that detect when they’re being used by a black person and somehow prevents the voter from punching out a chad?
Wait! There’s more! The Post says, "long lines at polling places sowed confusion among many black voters and ended up nullifying many of their votes." In fact, the NAACP has filed a formal complaint with the Justice Department in which it claims that the long lines discouraged blacks from voting.
Long lines? Long lines are somehow more confusing to black voters than they are to white voters? Does this mean that long lines are racist?
That means Disney World and most auto tag lines are racist! And what about those lines at the gift wrapping counter this Christmas? Can’t you just see those confused black people getting to the front of those lines and accidentally asking for birthday gift wrapping? Shouldn’t someone ask these so-called African American leaders to please stop making black people look like idiots?
The study claims that because of the poor quality of help found where they vote, blacks are less likely than whites to get a chance to correct messed-up ballots.
It’s the voter’s responsibility to check the ballot to see if that vote is registered. In fact, that’s what it says on those instructions sent to all Florida voters before the election and what it says on the ballots!
The Post says it seems that white voters are somewhat more likely to check their ballots for mistakes than black voters are. Does that mean that the black voters didn’t "get a chance," as the study says, to check their ballots?
There’s a big difference between not doing something and not getting a chance to do something. The opportunity was there. The opportunity was ignored.
So what do we do? Go out there and create votes for Gore out of blank ballots because black voters just don’t check their ballots for mistakes like white voters do?
You know what this sounds like? It sounds suspiciously like the Clinton administration’s plan for statistical sampling in the Census. The Clintonistas told us that blacks just aren’t as likely as whites to fill out their census forms and send them in, so it would be perfectly fair to make some sort of a scientific guess as to the "real" number of black citizens and adjust the census accordingly.
I can see where this is going: The civil rights war lords and their Democratic masters are going to start pushing the idea of using some sort of statistical sampling to "correct" the numbers of black votes for president because blacks aren’t as likely to check their ballots for errors as whites are, not to mention the confusion caused by those racist long lines.
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This is a retired Marine captain? And this ballot confused him? I don’t know what this captain did in the Marines, but we must assume his orders were never more than one page long.
The Post tells us that election experts believe inexperienced voters are most likely to be confused when a ballot contains more than six names for one office.
Please forgive my insensitivity, but just how much of a rectal-cranial inversion do you have to be suffering from to suddenly lapse into spasms of confusion when faced with a choice of six or more names to choose from for a political office? Can these people read road maps? Would they face starvation if they wandered into a restaurant with more than six choices on the menu? Do they have a tough time filling out a parlay card with more than six football games to choose from?
The story then brings us the sage wisdom of some Ohio balloting expert who tells us that "Poor people are more likely to invalidate ballots because of difficulty mastering punch-card systems."
I don’t doubt that. Hell, poor people have difficulty mastering a lot more than punch-card systems. They have a rough time mastering the concept that sex leads to pregnancy and pregnancy leads to babies they can’t afford to raise. They have a rough time with the concept of a work ethic, of showing up every day when you’re supposed to, and doing your job until it’s time to go home. The poor can’t seem to grasp the concept that every dollar spent on drugs, booze and cigarettes is a dollar that can’t be spent on food, shelter or clothing.
Am I being tough on the poor? I am. It’s so damned easy in this country NOT to be poor. Hell, all you have to do to escape poverty is to stay in school, not get pregnant, and get a damned job!
If there’s anything we’ve learned in this Florida vote fiasco and from this Washington Post article, it’s that there are far too many incompetent people wandering (or being trucked) into polling places – people who should be kept away from ballots of any description until they can exhibit the common sense of a 10-year-old and some marginal understanding of just what they’re voting for.
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