Kenneth Blackwell Quotes

Florida’s vote counting system was extremely primitive and highly subjective, and no one could really ever tell whether Al Gore or George W. Bush ever won the state whose electoral votes determined the election of 2000. The Supreme Court finally decided that Bush would be president, but no one wanted such a situation to ever happen again. Blackwell had better technology in Ohio in the next election but Ohio various techniques were used to keep some Blacks from voting.

In the decision of the 2000 Election.

The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.

The Black community and the Democrats had conducted a very successful voter registration drive and Preisse didn’t want them to have any further advantage. It is much easier for middle class and wealthy people to adjust their work schedules so that they can vote during the voting hours. Saturday voting, extending the voting hours and other means that would help the working person who cannot control his own time schedule would help voter turnout a great deal. But of the voters who would be assisted, the belief is that most would vote Democrat. As a result, Republicans tend to oppose making voting any easier and support any steps that can make it more difficult for the poor or the working class. However, the admission that the motivation was to keep Blacks from voting was terribly embarrassing to the Republican Governor and other party leaders. However, it was not embarrassing enough to extend the voting hours.

She had petitioned for a recount of the close elections in Pennsylvania, and two other states, However, the arcane Pennsylvania election laws together with an inclination on the part of election officials in Pennsylvania not to do a recount, produced a process that was really ineffective as a check on the original vote and any errors that might ahve been made. In general, state election officials do not like recounts in Presidential elections. If the results were wrong and the stat's electoral votes should have gone to another, the politics of the state are destabilized and tust in the state election system is seriously eroded, and they are blamed. However, even if the results are not reversed, typically totals for a number of districts change and they are called upon to explain the discrepency which most often is attributed to weaknesses in the system which do not sufficiently eliminate human error, There are calls for investigations and the consequences continue, often for years. Most scientists studying the various state election processes, agree that some states systems are very weak, and there are many errors in elections, but they are rarely of sufficient magnitude toe change the results of the election. Reform of the system in many states and local areas becasue most politicans are reluctant to spemd more money on the election processes and system.

More than 80 voting machines in Detroit malfunctioned on Election Day resulting in ballot discrepancies in 59% of precincts that raise questions about the reliability of the 2016 Presidential Vote in Michigan. The state of Michigan, like many other states, would not approprate sufficient funds toi keep election equipment properly maintained. What was an irony about the 2016 Election errors in Detroit, the Michican State Law actually forbade doing manual recounts. Polioticans throughout America during that decade had been passing all kinds of legislation to prevent voting by people why were ineligible (a problem which was almsot non existant) and would do very little to get their own election commissions the equipment and personnel that they needed to avoid vote counting errors.