Tuesday, October 22, 2002

HoustonChronicle.com - ACLU says blacks hit hard by vote glitches

"Black voters were disenfranchised more than others by snafus when Florida's Miami-Dade County introduced electronic voting equipment for the Sept. 10 primary, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday."

Also in the Chronicle: "Candidates for the Texas Supreme Court have raised $4 million for their campaigns, with much of the cash coming from law firms and business interests likely to have cases or issues before the high court.

"Texas has a history of notorious judicial politics. The CBS news program 60 Minutes has twice featured reports asking whether justice is for sale here."

This is blatently bad and no one wants to fix it. Also all judges in Texas run in polical partisan elections and when one political party sweeps all the judges change. Most of my ballot Saturday was judicial campaigns I didn't feel we should be voting on.

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