What I see here is a breakdown of the political machine. Every city has one. The machine maintains control over voting outcomes by miseducating, deceiving ballot tampering and a host of other questionable activites. The machine targets certain groups the elderly (especially those living in housing complexes), blacks,handicapped; and dictates for whom they should vote.

In absence of blacks is causing a major void in the machine ability to control thousands and thousands of votes.

Apparently, NAACP efforts at voter registration have gone for naught; because they failed to provide voter education. An educated voter would know about the absentee voting process.

Nevertheless, there is a Voting Rights Act that, in spirit, protects the right of every citizen to vote. So, be one physically disabled, out of the country, illiterate, or just plain ignorant; this right must be protected and accommodated.

The transition period between electronic and paper balloting will pass as young voters register and older voters cast that final vote. However,I believe that paper ballots should always be an option. If for no other reason than to avoid having to listen to these “ridiculous characterizations of blacks as the most pitiable people in America”.

I am led to believe by my “progressive” friends that this fear of electronic voting is a rural phenomenon. Does anyone have any factual information that supports their claim? Please forward it to me via blog.

There is a saying that says, “The most dangerous weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”. The truth is that these black leaders are selling out the black race.

Just keeping it real..

I am certain that the Justice Department insistance that the election be held; will fit into some “conspiracy theorist” tapestry of yet another example of the systematic disenfranchisement of the black voter. Give me a break!

During my 20 years in the Army, including two fun-filled years in Sunny Southeast Asia, I missed exactly one absentee ballot – just one, and it was a primary. It’s an easy process.

Like it or not, these dispossessed folks from New Orleans have suffered a life-changing event. One hopes that the change will be a good one for them in the long run.

Mr. Charlie ain’t gonna solve all their problems. He can’t, he won’t. Since they ARE absentee, they will HAVE to vote absentee. And fortunately, it’s a paper operation, so the naesayers who say that Black people will be “too terrified to use (the computers) them” should be happy that standard ballots will be used.

I hope she is interviewed after the election to see if her fears materialized.