What happened to our 'equal protection under the law'?

[DoYouEverWonder]

Remember in the 2000 election the Supreme Court gave the election to Bush because his right to 'equal protection under the law' was violated? At the time, I was outraged. What about the rest of us. What about our equal protection?

Now four years later, this issue rears its ugly head again. However, this time it is our equal protection that should be the issue.

It is not possible to guarantee our equal protection for one simple reason, we don't all vote on the same type of equipment.

Some people get a paper ballot that is fed into a scanner. Some people still use punch cards and some people vote on paperless voting systems? The people who use optical scanners are much more likely to have their votes counted, than someone who use punch cards. While touch screen voters can not have their votes recounted, because there is nothing left to count once they cast their vote into the ether.

The other troubling aspect of this issue is the distribution of this equipment. It seems that the people who get paper ballots are in the predominately REP counties, while the touch screens and punch cards were in predominately DEM counties.

The level of voter disenfranchisement is unprecedented. Some might even call it fraud or at the least racketeering. Either way, under the current system, all voters are being deprived of their equal protection, that the Supreme Court claimed was so important, they had to hand the election to the man who clearly had not won.

[baldguy]

1. Some people are more equal than others.

Namly rich, well connected white males.

[leftofthedial]

2. every vote for which there is a paper record

is unfairly better than every vote without one.

This violates the equal protection clause.

[ecoalex]

3. Many decisions are bullsh**

Many court decisions are B.S. Forget law It's about power and politics. The court also said the electors elect the pResident, not he voters.