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Worker Fired After Davidson County Double Voting
News Channel 5, Nashville, TN ^ | May 13, 2014 | News Channel 5

Posted on 05/13/2014 8:33:49 PM PDT by radu

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Davidson County election worker has been fired after problems with electronic poll books allowed some people to vote twice.

Election officials have said that some people were allowed to vote twice because an outside vendor did not update electronic poll books with early voters before Election Day. The fired worker did not cross check early voting tallies against the poll books.

"So there were procedures that were not followed on their side and on our side," said Administrator of Elections Kent Wall.

Last Tuesday was Wall's first election at the helm. He says he still trusts the machines despite the human errors.

"The veterans here tell me mistakes get made in every election. We just think there are fewer with the new equipment than there were in the old process with the paper poll book," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newschannel5.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: davidsoncounty; electionfraud; elections; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: radu

21 posted on 05/13/2014 9:11:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ray76

Our county Republican Women’s Group has been hounding the TN Legislature for a few years to do all of those things, to no avail so far. I imagine other groups are, too, but for some reason they just won’t listen. It’s beyond aggravating.


22 posted on 05/13/2014 9:14:41 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Ezekiel

All good questions and we never seem to be able to get answers.


23 posted on 05/13/2014 9:18:45 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: dfwgator

Overall, that’s pretty much it in a nutshell, isn’t it?


24 posted on 05/13/2014 9:20:52 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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Contact info for Kent Wall

Davidson County

Administrator: Kent Wall
Mailing Address: P O BOX 650
37202-0650
Address: 1417 Murfreesboro Pike
Metro Southeast
Nashville
37217

Phone: 615.862.8800
Fax: 615.862.8810
Email: vote.questions@nashville.gov
Web Site: nashville.gov/vote
Hours: 8:00-4:30 M - F


25 posted on 05/13/2014 9:30:48 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Article in The Tennessean yesterday:

Mark Goins, the state’s election administrator, said he has recommended referring the six voters to Davidson County prosecutors.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/12/election-officials-weigh-double-voting/9013815/


26 posted on 05/13/2014 10:25:10 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Jet Jaguar

FYI, this was a local primary so any voter who voted twice would be from the same party:

Voters in Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford and Sumner counties are selecting nominees for judges, court clerks, sheriffs and commissioners. Winners of the Republican and Democratic primaries will face off in local general elections in August.

Apparently some counties in Tennessee have two primaries. Seems a bit of a waste of resources and confusing to the public. The general election date refered to here is the primary date for the rest of the candidates


27 posted on 05/13/2014 10:29:41 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf; radu

Thanks for the updates.


28 posted on 05/13/2014 10:38:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Steven Scharf; Jet Jaguar

Thanks for the link, Steven.

Goins doesn’t need to recommend referring them to prosecutors. He needs to refer them. Period.

If anyone was turned away, it was probably because they didn’t have photo ID. No ID; no votee. And people have had plenty of time to get one since the law went into effect.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. I do hope they prosecute those who voted more than once. It’s past time to deal with this mess everywhere it occurs.


29 posted on 05/14/2014 1:53:57 AM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Steven Scharf; Jet Jaguar

Last week was the county primary elections in TN. The general election for these positions will be in Aug., when we also have our state primary elections .... state senators and representatives, governor, US senators and representatives.
Then we have the state general elections in Nov.

I don’t know why they split it up so much. I agree it seems to be a waste of resources.


30 posted on 05/14/2014 2:00:24 AM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu

They can always check the PAPER TRAIL.

...oh, never mind.


31 posted on 05/14/2014 2:44:31 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

If someone votes once, they KNOW when they vote the second time in the same election. Who’s kidding who here?

Guess the Iraqis had it right with dipping the finger in the ink procedure.


32 posted on 05/14/2014 4:51:39 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37
Guess the Iraqis had it right with dipping the finger in the ink procedure.

I've been saying we need to do that in this country since I first heard how they do it over there.

33 posted on 05/14/2014 6:57:06 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: DaveA37

That was the Afghans, not Iraqis.


34 posted on 05/14/2014 8:58:56 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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