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California Naacp Announces Lawsuit To Delay Recall newsberkeley.com The California NAACP announced today that it will file a lawsuit to push the recall election back a month in an effort to create fairness for the state's poor and minority voters. California NAACP President Huffman said that her group is suing to delay the recall election to November because as it stands black voters would be disenfranchised and the state could see confusion reminiscent of the 2000 Florida vote. During a conference call with reporters today, Huffman and California Labor Federation official Art Palaski blasted the recall effort, calling it a "coup'' attempt by the state's conservative interests. The Oct. 7 voting date does not leave enough time to educate minority voters about election issues or encourage them to vote, according to Huffman. "It disallows us the opportunity to do the kind of outreach we normally do,'' Huffman said. She also said those most affected would be poor and minority voters. "That's going to be the majority of our people who we always have the most difficulty in turning out, getting them to understand the process, and to vote,'' Huffman said. Palaski said the special election would keep poor, minority and inner city voters away from the polls because county registrars would be forced to cut down on polling places to meet the unexpected costs of the election. "Voters may show up at their usual polling places, say a church basement, and find a bingo game under way,'' said Palaski. "It will happen in the middle of cities.'' Although the NAACP lawsuit asks for the election to be moved to November to coincide with planned elections in some counties and give other registrars more time, Huffman said that she would have preferred that the election be moved to March. "I don't believe trying to delay it until March has the credibility of trying to delay it to November to regular elections,'' she said. County registrars are "scrambling'' to prepare for the October elections, Palaski said, which could lead to Florida-like election mismanagement. He pointed to Los Angeles, which is moving to new voting machines that may not be ready by October. According to Huffman, Monterey county is going ahead with an all mail election and such elections have disproportionately suppressed the black vote. Addressing questions about strategy for the upcoming election, Huffman said Democrats should "stay the course'' and not run candidates other than Gov. Gray Davis. Asked about her previous support for a gubernatorial run by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Huffman reiterated her support of Brown but said, "I would not want to see him run for governor under these circumstances.'' The NAACP's lawyer on this issue, Cynthia McClain-Hill, has agreed to work pro-bono. McClain-Hill is also an appointee on the California Coastal Commission, according to Huffman. | ||||||||||||
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