Archive for the 'Gathering to Save Our Democracy' Category

Voter Confidence Act Passes House 88 to 6

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Thanks to your emails and phone calls, Representative Gary Moore’s HB 1256, the Voter Confidence Act, passed on the floor of the Tennessee State House today 88 to 6. Thanks also to all the bill’s co-sponsors - Rep. Janis Sontany, Rep. Mike Turner, Rep. Sherry Jones, Rep. Brenda Gilmore, Rep. Ben West, Rep. Mary Pruitt, […]

Voter Confidence Meeting

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Tomorrow, Thursday, January 17, at 9:30 a.m., the legislature’s Voter Confidence Act Legislative Study Committee will meet to discuss SB 1363 (Senator Haynes), HB 1256 (Representative Moore) - legislation that will mandate that all voting equipment in Tennessee use or produce a voter-verified paper ballot and that statewide random post-election manual audits be conducted to […]

Maybe We Can Vote With Mumpower’s Balls

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Yesterday’s New York Time’s Magazine cover story, Can You Count on Voting Machines?, offers valuable and in depth coverage of electronic voting machines and the threat they pose to the foundation of our democratic process - our right to vote in free and fair elections. This important and non-partisan issue (there are just as many […]