TENNESSEE MAY GO BACK TO PAPER BALLOT ELECTIONS
A Tennessee lawmaker is proposing legislation that would have the state revert to paper ballots for elections.
State Representative Bruce Griffey (R-Paris-D75) submitted HB1662 on Wednesday. Under the bill, voting machines and ballot marking devices would be banned starting with the 2022 elections.
County election commissions would instead be required to use only hand-marked paper ballots to be counted using an optical ballot scanner which uses software open to public inspection. In order to make it affordable, the state would absorb at least 50% of each county’s cost in acquiring the machines.
The bill would also allow poll watchers to take video of polling places and create security features used on the paper ballots such as watermarks, fluorescence, digital holograms, or other technology.
Anonymous
January 2, 2022 at 8:01 am
Good. Unless the voting machines’ source code is open source, there is absolutely no way to verify what is going on behind the scenes.
Anonymous
January 3, 2022 at 1:22 am
Good! Voting machines and absentee ballot “shopping” have made elections in the US comparatively worse, and more corrupt, than some third world countries. Additionally, all the BS about “disenfranchised” poor and minority voters is garbage; the claim that current law prohibits them from voting is a lie, that the inability to get to a polling station, or requiring ID inhibits their ability to cast a ballot is also a lie. These very same people have no difficulty getting to DHS to apply for welfare or EBT programs, btw, both require ID.