There has got to be action against these criminals. The facts are stacking up higher and higher and for some unfathomable reason NOTHING is being done. WE THE PEOPLE are being undermined by the GOP at every turn. There is no accountability for these scoundrals.

The only "impossible" standard in Tennessee right now is getting the truth from our Secretary of State

In recent days, Secretary of State Tre Hargett has said he cannot implement the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act (TVCA) until 2012 for several (bogus) reasons. It is time for the truth, and there is no more time to waste.

The truth is that we have $33+ million in unspent federal money to buy the new equipment. States switching to paper ballots/opscan have reduced their annual election expenses by 30-40%. That's a $10-$15 million savings to Tennessee counties every year.

The truth is that we have time to implement safer elections -- about seventeen months. Other states that made the switch to paper ballots/opscan did so in seven months or less.

The truth is that the TVCA doesn't require a 2005 standard anywhere in the act. If 40 other states can use this equipment, the truth is Tennessee can too.

The truth is that paperless touch-screen voting machines are inefficient, expensive, insecure, inaccurate and incapable of being audited. If Ronald Reagan were here, he would ask, "What part of 'Trust but Verify' don't you understand?"

Bottom line: Tre Hargett says he doesn't have to respect the law. In so doing, he
has demonstrated that his only commitment right now is to keep our elections unsafe and unverifiable in Tennessee for at least two more years. That cannot be allowed to stand.

On behalf of all Tennessee voters who only want our votes to be counted the way we cast them, it is time to implement the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act.

At this moment, we need east Tennessee's traditionally moderate Republicans to speak up against the American Taliban election-thieves who have highjacked the once proud GOP and are rapidly turning it into the RICO party. Honorable Republicans don't fear fair elections -- why is Tre Hargett working so hard to prevent them in Tennessee?

Not only the article, but the comments reveal that a significant portion of the American electorate is certifiably out of touch with reality.
First, the "Acorn question." "Charges have been filed" because Republicans all over the country are engaging in a concerted campaign to discredit the organization. None of those charges have resulted in convictions of the organization, to the best of my knowledge, and Acorn has consistently fired employees who were discovered to have falsified voter registration forms.

Now, if you wanna talk about stolen elections....the president of Diebold, the company that makes touch-screen voting machines, is on the public record pledging to "help elect Republicans." The machines have a long record of flipping votes from Democrats and third parties to Republicans. That's why the GOP operatives are defending touch-screen machines.

I believe Hargett is lying in his teeth when he says he supports the effort to switch to optical scan machines. Why do I think that? Because he is lying when he says the act specifies that machines must meet the 2005 standards. It doesn't. 40 states are now using optical scan machines, and they are proving to be cheaper, more reliable, and, most important, genuinely RECOUNTABLE.

One last thing--all those "complaints from election commissions"? The Republicans have recently completed a possibly illegal purge in this state, firing county election commissioners who are Democrats and replacing them with Republicans who will do the party's bidding and fight the change to an honest voting system.

To its great shame, the state's media have mostly served as an unquestioning echo chamber for the Republicans' carefully orchestrated steal-the-vote campaign. What ever happened to investigative journalism?

So, McKracken, if Acorn scares you, then I guess the elections of 2000 with the Supreme Court and 2004 with Diebold made you go all Friday the 13th, wet the bed, and scream for your mommie?

Where was all this indignation about ACORN when this was going on:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane

Isn't this the same Mr. Holmes involved in the interesting little "meeting" that was held to ensure Jason Booher was elected Election Administrator?

I don't know Ms. Adams so I can't speak to her mental status but she is right on about Acorn.

Since 1998, Acorn and its Project Vote have been investigated for hundreds of thousands of cases of voter fraud in 17 states.

In May, charges were filed in Nevada against Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent."

Also prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., recently charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election.

I was always taught that if there was smoke, there was usually a fire. So I ask you, if this many voter registrations were caught, how many weren't caught and actually counted? This is no delusion but a fact. It scares me as it should scare all Americans who care for the freedom of our country.

Just put the psycho in a straight jacket where she belongs.

Jane, your meds are on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet. Hurry.

I didn't have a "guy" in that race. John McCain is a lib. Although, he would have merely tried to destroy the country by giving into the nutjobs instead of following the communist manifesto line by line.

You know, Jane, your guy lost by 8 million votes. ACORN isn't THAT good, or are you sincerely giving them that much credit?

It's all moot anyway with ACORN registering and voting illegal aliens, the dead, dogs, and cartoon characters.