I think the ACLU has pretty much abandoned any credibility it might have had with its latest whopper:
ACLU Sues Over Paper Ballots in Ohio
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN
CLEVELAND (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge on Monday to block the March 4 presidential primary in Ohio’s biggest county if it switches to a paper ballot system that doesn’t allow voters to correct errors.
In a follow-up to a suit it filed Jan. 17, the ACLU of Ohio asked for a preliminary injunction against any election in Cuyahoga County if the switch is made.
The lawsuit argued that the proposed paper-ballot system would violate voters’ constitutional rights because it doesn’t allow them to correct errors on ballots before they are cast.
“The evidence is overwhelming that when voters do not have access to technology that notifies them of ballot errors, many more ballots are left uncounted,” said Meredith Bell-Platts, a voting-rights attorney with the ACLU.
I think this is a massive, massive reach. What normally happens with a paper ballot is that if you make a mistake and want to correct an error, you hand the ballot back to the clerk, who is supposed to mark it spoiled. S/he then hands you a fresh ballot and you start over.
What the ACLU is saying is that people are too stupid to read through their ballot before they cast it to see if they’ve made any mistakes. Only the machine ballot is able to warn a voter that they’ve made a mistake (like voting for too many or too few judges or leaving a referendum scratched, even if on purpose). This is nanny-statism at its finest — paper ballots have worked fine for our ancestors for hundreds of years, but we’re so damn dumb in this day and age that we have to have a machine tell us whether we fucked up or not.
The ACLU needs to go away and die. It does not protect my liberties in any way, shape or form.
Via Instapundit.