{"id":190,"date":"2006-11-03T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-11-03T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T11:23:36","slug":"memphis-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Memphis does it again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to have a clean election in Memphis? After last year’s mess that resulted in the ousting of Ophelia Ford<\/a> from the State Senate due to more illegal (dead people and felons, mostly) ballots being cast than her margin of victory and the indictment of a couple of election workers, it seems they’d try — just once — to get it right.<\/p>\n

Here’s a tune to keep you in the spirit of the season: Voting in Memphis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Commercial Appeal<\/a> reports this morning that they’ve had problems with the old “vote early and often” mentality:<\/p>\n

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing reports by the Shelby County Election Commission that two people voted twice during early voting in Memphis.<\/p>\n

Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons said Thursday he’s referred the cases to the TBI for investigation along with other matters he declined to discuss.<\/p>\n

“I can confirm that is one issue the TBI is investigating,” Gibbons said. He and Election Commission Chairman Greg Duckett declined to release a letter sent to prosecutors detailing the suspected double voting.<\/p>\n

Officials declined to say where the votes were cast; Shelby County had 19 early voting locations. Nor would they describe how the individuals were able to skirt computer safeguards.<\/p>\n

However, Election Commissioner O.C. Pleasant said staff at the sites should have immediately detected the efforts to double vote and promptly notified election headquarters, yet failed to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What really surprises me and angers me is the officers made no efforts to contact the Election Commission<\/strong>,” he said.<\/p>\n

Ballots at early voting sites are cast on electronic touch-screen machines, and the double voting was detected through end-of-the day reconciliation, Pleasant said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The good news is that the cheating was discovered; the bad news, obviously, is that there are still problems and the poll workers don’t appear to be exercising due diligence. They have to know that with a Ford in a race drawing national and international attention, Memphis is going to be closely watched.<\/p>\n

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