electronic voting

The Vol Abroad discuss her ambivalence:

Not everyone is looking forward to Tennessee’s coming switch back to paper ballots:

Although the state will pay for the new equipment Collins still considers it to be wasteful in a time when the state needs to tighten the budget.“

Summary: Tomas Young from Phil Donohue’s documentary, Body of War ; Renée Paradis, Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice; an

KNS: Voting machines may get replaced

The proposed "Tennessee Voter Confidence Act" calls for replacing the "touch screen" voting machines used in Knox County and 92 others with the new paper-trail devices by "no later than" the 2010 elections.

This is great news, and you can read the article for the details.

State Representative Susan Lynn has a great article up at her site and thanks to Eric for bringing to my attention:

The legislature’s Voter Confidence Act Study Committee met last week and approved two very important pieces of legislation to require paper ballots for the new voting technology used in Tennessee. Now, the bills head back to the elections subcommittee for reco

Yesterday at lunch, the groovy chicks at the office all decided to go out and have lunch. We are a diverse group, conservative, liberals, a couple of blue dogs and two women who are pretty apathetic about politics as a whole. Everyone was there.

I thought she was crazy, but Cookie was right.

Oh, and I was right too. About this.

So far in this race I’m something like zero for infinity on predictions, but here’s one I feel safe in making:

If Hillary Clinton ekes out a win over Barack Obama in New Hampshire after being down in the polls and dismissed by the pundits, you can bet that the word “DIEBOLD” will start to appear quite frequently next to the name Clinton.