Paper Voting Record Required By 2010

[DeSwiss]

Paper voting record required by 2010

The Tennessean
By THEO EMERY • Staff Writer • May 16, 2008

The Senate voted on Thursday to require all voting in Tennessee to be done on machines that leave a paper record, although the bill's passage comes too late for a statewide switchover before this fall's presidential election.

The Senate's unanimous vote on the so-called "Voter Confidence Act," which has also passed the House, will eventually require every county to use voting machines by 2010 that generate a paper record of ballots that can be checked in recounts or audited. The House and Senate must reconcile a minor difference between the two versions of the bill, then send it to the governor for his signature.

Dick Williams, chairman of the Tennessee chapter of the watchdog group Common Cause, said he was pleased the measure had passed. "This will give voters the assurance that their vote is cast the way they want it to," he said, but added that it was "a big disappointment" that it came to late for elections this year.

Currently, only two Tennessee counties — Pickett and Hamilton counties — use such machines for precinct-based voting, though they are used in some other locations to tally absentee votes.

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- Finally. But I guess better late than not at all...
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[southerncrone]

1. Yes, better late than never, I suppose.

What a coup the 2000 election was for the filthy neocons. FL got some bad punch cards that created the "hanging chad" controversy, ushering in the demand for "electronic" voting machines, sold by neocon companies who made a killing. Then rigged to re-elect the pResident. I have to hand it to them, it was pure genius.

Now we're back full circle from whence we started. Only the states are out thousands & thousands of dollars for this crazy trip through voting hell.


Hey, DeSwiss!:hi:

[DeSwiss]

2. Hanging chads....

...and screwed-up electronic voting machines. Problems going back eight years. And now we wait another two.

Lightning speed for Tennessee government. Peachy.

:hi: Hi SouthernCrone!!!

[NashVegas]

3. FYI

Fly By Night's been busting it on this one.

Yay us.