Sheesh… is it even possible to have an honest election in Memphis, or should we just sell it off to Arkansas?

WATE reports that

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a report of a man who posed as a Shelby County precinct official to pick up ballots and voting materials before Thursday’s primary.

On the day before elections, officials from the county’s 279 precincts are expected to report to the county’s election operations center to pick up metal ballot boxes, ballot applications, signs and voter lists.

Election Commissioner O.C. Pleasant, Jr. told The Commercial Appeal a man showed up Wednesday and said he represented Precinct 491 and left with the election materials. The error was discovered when the real official arrived later at the center.

I don’t know exactly where precinct 491 is, but I’d wager a cold one it’s in the district where Ophelia Ford was removed from a State Senate seat because the number of dead people, felons, and non-residents was deemed to exceed her margin of alleged victory.

For all the upheaval that our local elections have wrought, at least I do have significant confidence in the security of our ballots in Anderson County. It wasn’t always so, but the Election Commission is a tightly run ship these days. For this, I am grateful.