>This is to repeat the gist of the articles I've just posted, but I just am
>appalled that the two Chucks are both denigrating the right to use the
>courts to fight voting rights violations, with Chuck Grimes comparing such
>legal battles to tantrums and ejaculation.
>
>The frigging ballot violated state law in Palm Beach, voters were denied
>translators, police setup road checks near polling booths, latinos were
>harassed to provide extra identification not required by law, and registered
>black voters were told they were not registered.
>
>IT IS NOT A TANTRUM to demand that these illegal voting rights violations be
>corrected. The right to go to court to fight such inequities is what the
>March at Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was all
>about. People died for the right to use courts to override the illegal acts
I'll bet if just about any state's voting procedures were scrutinized carefully, you'd find all kinds of abuses, ranging from negligence to fraud. How about recounts in the states Gore narrowly carried?
Doug