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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chomolungma who wrote (6577)	12/27/2000 4:21:23 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

washingtonpost.com "...Cook County was among the jurisdictions using decades-old punch-card machines. While in past presidential elections, Cook County averaged a nullified vote rate of 2 percent, this time it was 5 percent. JoAnn Robinson, Illinois director of the NAACP's National Voter Fund, thinks she knows why. This was the first presidential election since Republicans in the state Legislature pushed through a law in 1997 that ended voters' ability to vote a straight-party ticket, and she said many voters were confounded picking candidates individually for the first time. "In the past African Americans in particular knew all the pro-civil rights candidates were under the one-punch number," she said. "You just followed the directions to 'Punch 10.' " The 40 telephone lines at Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition office in Chicago rang from morning till night on Election Day with callers flummoxed by the change. "People were so confused they didn't know what to do," said Alice Tregay, who helped run the phone bank. "They were saying, 'Where's the punch for the straight Democratic Party?' "..." Regards, Don