{"id":1694,"date":"2003-09-15T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T17:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/calling-justice-scalia\/"},"modified":"2003-09-15T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T17:51:38","slug":"calling-justice-scalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/15\/calling-justice-scalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Justice Scalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo a three-judge panel of the ultra-left Ninth Circuit wants to delay the California recall until March, the better to keep Davis and the unions in power. The argument? Punch-card voting  <a title=\"sacbee.com -- Recall -- Appeals court postpones Oct. 7 recall vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/recall\/story\/7420551p-8363633c.html\">disadvantages minorities:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; A federal appeals court postponed California&#8217;s Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as scheduled because some votes would be cast using outmoded punch-card ballot machines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other lawsuits, civil rights groups unsuccessfully fought to move Proposition 54 to the March ballot to give minorities more time to study it. In addition, some counties, to cut costs and conduct the election on a hurry-up schedule, were reducing the number of polling places, a move civil rights groups said would disenfranchise minority voters in areas with low voter turnout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an absurd ruling because it fails to balance the real harm done by leaving Davis in power another five months with the imaginary harm of punch-card voting, which we&#8217;ve used for years. The first time voters use touch-screen voting, errors will be higher than they&#8217;ve been with punch cards, but the Ninth is a little too lame to see that. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an idiotic decision. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/ca9\/newopinions.nsf\/24CB44D4ABF7AFD088256DA2005DA6D6\/$file\/0356498.pdf?openelement\">here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a three-judge panel of the ultra-left Ninth Circuit wants to delay the California recall until March, the better to keep Davis and the unions in power. The argument? Punch-card voting disadvantages minorities: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; A federal appeals court postponed California&#8217;s Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election, ruling the historic vote cannot proceed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/15\/calling-justice-scalia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling Justice Scalia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}