Dear Rep. Davis, Candidate Barnes, Nashville Public Radio, and, what the heck, the National Media,
First, I’d like to thank you all for your interest in the democratic process. As you know, it’s so important that as voters and American citizens we can count on our news media and elected officials to ensure that in every […]

HB 1256/SB 1363, Tennessee’s Voter Confidence Act, goes to a full floor vote in the House on Tuesday, May 13. In the Senate it has one more committee (Finance Ways & Means) hoop to jump through today, Monday, May 12. Senate F, W & M members are:
Randy McNally, Chair; Douglas Henry, Vice-Chair; Tim Burchett, Secretary; […]

Way to prevent voter fraud, U.S. Supreme Court! Someone with the intials S-C-A-L-I-A is going to a very hot place when he dies. Really. Taking away what could be the last pleasurable act of participatory democracy from a 98-year-old nun? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by […]

Tennessee is one of 6 states at “High” risk for voting machine mishaps come November. Can we change that? Yes, we can!
From VoteSafeTN:
We’re close to achieving verifiable elections in Tennessee! We finally have the money, and we have time to switch to paper ballots for this year’s general election. All the pieces are in place. […]

On the front page of their website, the Indiana state government is touting National Air Quality Awareness Week. Good thing because something there sure is stinky. Without a shred of evidence of election fraud through identity manipulation in Indiana, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday to bring back the poll tax by upholding the law requiring […]

From Brad Blog:
This Tuesday’s crucial contest will be primarily run on 100% faith-based, touch-screen e-voting machines across the state. There will be no way to determine after the election whether the computers have accurately recorded, or not, the intent of those voters who voted on them. As VerifiedVoting.org summarizes the crucial contest, it “will be […]

Yesterday in Washington, the Holt bill (HR 5036) - which would authorize reimbursement for states and counties that convert to paper ballot voting machines before the November elections or help pay for manual audits after the election - was added to the congressional calendar used for non-controversial measures. And then prompted objected to by the […]

“Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election.”
To you, funny. To me, less.
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
(Hat Tip: Mark Crispin Miller)

What should be a huge nationwide news story is finally hitting a few other of the, er, mainstream papers: Barack Obama was robbed in New York.
Barack Obama’s primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, […]

Guess who’s one of 6 states at “High” risk for voting machine mishaps tomorrow? That’s right - Tennessee! Sweet, we win again! Oh, wait….
According to a new report by Common Cause and the Verified Voting Foundation:
Six of the 15 states that hold presidential primaries on Super Tuesday are at “high” risk for having election results […]