Screwed Again: How Local Republicans Intend to Steal the Next Election

The state legislature in Tennessee passed the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act (TVCA) which required the state to dump its suspect touch-screen voting machines. But the law has not yet been implemented due to legal challenges from Tennessee Republicans. Why do Tennessee Republicans want to stand in the way of the law?

"In November of 2008, as the state was still using its completely faith-based electronic voting systems, it somehow managed to buck the national trend as the only state in the nation to see legislative gains for the Republican Party."

Makes sense now.

Then there's Florida where in 2006 "18,000 electronic ballots in Democratic-leaning Sarasota disappeared from the county's ES&S touch-screen systems, in a race decided in favor of the Republican by just 369 votes."

Florida has also been forced to stop using touch-screen voting machines. But Republican election supervisor Kathy Dent is encouraging voters to use "a blue or black pen" for marking their paper ballots in the upcoming midterms. This is handy as the optical scanner which tallies paper votes cannot read blue pen. The Florida polling rules would then allow for helpful polling staff to re-mark unreadable ballots with black ink. Can't see anything untoward with that plan.