Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
September 30, 2004

Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that."

Joanne Bland, the director and co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Ala., told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines are going to intimidate black voters in Florida and elsewhere and surpress their vote in the November presidential election because many blacks are not "technologically savvy."

"The computers really terrify me. The electronic voting -- the new machines -- I think it will turn off a segment in my community, particularly the elderly. We are not as technically savvy, and we are afraid of machines like that, and they (African-Americans) probably won't go [to the polls] and they probably won't ask for assistance, said Bland, who spent the last week in Florida.

"It is going to turn them off totally and I want that to stop," said Bland, who also serves as a spokeswoman for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Public Accuracy, which predicts that "several million voters" may be "deprived of voting rights again" in 2004.

When asked if she preferred low-tech punch-card ballots that produced the controversial hanging chads in Florida in 2000, Bland responded, "Now that was low technology to who? People that have been privileged to learn technology? There have been lots of changes in the United States, but if you look at the statistics, our biggest block of voters would be between 40 and 80, so when did those people have access to any kind of technology?"

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These black "leaders" have a lower estimation of their people's intelligence than I have. This is the most brazen fear-mongering I've ever seen.

Afraid of machines...
Good god they're fucking idiots.

I'm shocked it wasn't more about the Florida suppression that occured in 2000..

Tch.

Yeah.. they seriously need to get better people to represent them. I agree for the most part about old people being turned off by it, but black people? If that article gets out I think it's going to put the black rights movement back a couple of years.

Well little wonder they act the way they do. They've been told black = stupid and low class for so long that they believe it. Gangsters and thugs are only the most extreme manifestations of it. Since when does leading a pointless life of meaningless sex and violence get any points?

Jesus tap-dancing Christ!

Someone please slap that woman and tell her to wake up and join the 21st century. Computers have been in the public's hands for decades. If anyone is left alive in this country that's still afraid of them, we're better off if they don't vote. I don't want that kind of idiot having a say in who runs this country.

. . . Funny, I feel the same way about our president. Regardless of how technologically inclined he is.

i've already heard two reports on headline news about attempts by republican funded voter regstration drives eliminating democratic registrations from their collections...they don't need technology to win...they're morals are allowing them to do that...all on their own.

i wonder where they'd draw the line in an attempt to win the election...america is becoming a sad place under bush...nothing is american anymore.

Heh. Selma. That's near me.