Daily Archives: July 18, 2009

The Voting News Daily: Are Tennessee Election Officials Competent Enough to Implement Paper Ballot Law?

Is the Tennessee Secretary of State afraid that he isn’t competent enough to enact Tennessee’s new paper ballot law in time for the 2010 election? Could it be that he doesn’t have what it takes to get the job done, so he has to keep making excuses to cover his inadequacies? County may have to…

The Voting News Daily: 7/20/2009 War over paper in Tennessee, New Mexico may ditch ES&S, Undervotes in 08,

Tennessee has 5 different election cases pending in Federal Court, which may be more than any other state. Meanwhile, Tennessee lawmaker Gary Odom’s oped today states that the law doesn’t require 2005 system guidelines and Tennessee should use federal HAVA funds to purchase paper ballot/machines now. Meanwhile Tennessee SOS Hargett claims that the law requires…