I realize he agreed with the Federal Court ruling.  I am now afraid that
anyone could stop any election at any time in the future if this ruling
is allowed to stand.  There will always be some contrived reason why the
voting would not be "fair."  Al Gore opened up a gigantic Pandora's box
when he first ran to the courts to overturn the count and recount in
Florida.  We are now on a very slippery slope...

Let us hope the full Ninth Circus court sees its way clear to not let
this ruling stand.  If it does not, let us hope the US Supreme Court
reigns in this US Appeals court, (which has had two thirds of its
rulings overturned.)

And as a member of a small minority, I am deeply offended by the
assertion that minorities are unable to use punch cards to vote. I have
never had a problem with them.

Denys

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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: Oops. Nevermind. Maybe.

Not withstanding the tangents, I read Boortz's intend with the article
was to agree with the court ruling.



"If there is, as I believe there is, a greater chance that punch-card
ballots are going to be thrown out, then that would mean that there is a
greater chance that people who vote in these six urban California
counties are not going to have their vote thrown out.  It boils down to
equal protection ... equal treatment under the law.  A voter using a
punch-card ballot has every right to expect their vote to count as much
as someone using a touch-screen.  The blunt truth is that this does not
seem to be the way things will work out."

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