Today, on the fifth day of Operation: P.O.P., the proofer movement gets another member. We welcome Mark Brown of the No Chaser blog as yet another Tennessee citizen who wants proof from Secretary of State Tre Hargett and/or State Election Coordinator Mark Brown Goins that a single vote has been accurately recorded by any of the 100% unverifiable touch screen electronic voting machines we use in 93 out of 95 counties.

Hello, Mark! *clap, clap, clap*

“Think about it,” he writes, “Where is the evidence that a single vote has been accurately recorded by any of these machines? Voters aren’t given a receipt that shows how their votes were recorded. The voting machines don’t even display that information onscreen. Not a single Tennessee voter has the slightest clue how his or her vote actually went down in the record.”

See, much like the Birthers who want to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate to prove he’s an American citizen. The Proofers, like me and No Chaser Mark, need to see evidence of how our votes are being counted.

You know, “vote in secret, count in public” instead of “vote in secret, count in secret.”

While we wait for Mr. Hargett and Mr. Goins, Mark also wants to know why other conservative officials in Tennessee continue to ignore their requests from “hard-working left-wing bloggers”:

Stacey Campfield, where’s the birth certificate we asked for last Sunday? Ron Ramsey, ready to give us those text messages you exchanged with Paul Stanley? Ron and Mark Norris, when are you going to tell us exactly how you handled the sex scandals involving “Family Values” conservatives Mike Faulk and Jeff Miller?

Tick, tock.

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Last week I was compared to a “birther” (see: Lou Dobbs) because I don’t think any votes ever cast during any election using the 100% unverifiable electronic voting machines we use now in 93 out of 95 counties in Tennessee has ever been recorded accurately, as per the voters’ intent. Ever.

Ironically, the “birthers” questions about the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate has been anwered, but my question has not.

And, because it has not, today begins “OPERATION: Please Offer Proof,” also known, thanks to Freddie’s mom and and Steve Scarborough of Roaneviews, as “Operation: POP” and the “Proofer” movement.

Today I am calling on Secretary of State Tre Hargett and/or State Election Coordinator Mark Goins to present proof to the voters of Tennessee that one vote cast electronic voting machines has ever been recorded accurately. Shouldn’t be too hard, should it? We’re only asking for proof of one vote.

Coordinator Goins doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the voting machines we use now.

Great. Let him prove it.

Coordinator Goins also wants to wait until next legislative session to decide on whether or not to give us secure and verifiable elections.

OK. We can wait. But only if the system we use now can be verified as full proof. If it can’t be verified then we must act now of the results of every election held in 2010 will be suspect.

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