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, […]

Hanging Chads and Katherine Harris may be long gone, but Florida’s still having electile dysfunction:

Over 100,000 votes went uncounted in Florida’s November 2006 election — all on the ES&S iVotronic paperless touchscreen voting machines — as described in a recently released report by Florida Fair Elections Center. The report, the result of a year-long investigation […]

Summary: It’s a cold day in hell on Liberadio(!) when we read a certain right-wing talk radio hosts’ Sunday column and our heads don’t explode. Plus, the integrity of our elections are still suspect, Rep. Rob Briley’s balancing act, Fred Thompson as Dick Gephardt, and isn’t “lozenge” a fun word to say?
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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 […]

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 […]