Shelby County Democrats Will Contest Election - WREG

Shelby County Democrats Will Contest Election - WREG It's official!  If they were so interested in integrity of the process, why didn't they get new machines in time for the 2008 election?  Or the election before that? Or the election before that?  The Democrats have had control here in Shelby County for years and  had every chance in the world to fix the system yet they did nothing about it.  Now that they have lost big time they want to cry foul and whine and scream about getting new machines and election integrity!

The only hope for election integrity is honesty on all sides and efforts to ensure the integrity of the voting process.  We here in Shelby County have been demanding new machines for years, at least ever since the 2000 elections and the dangling chad debacle.  Yet we have never purchased them.  Why?

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A Day in the Life of a Poll Worker in Shelby Co, TN (Memphis)

Election Day From Hell � Blue Collar Republican Republicans swept the county and local elections August 5th, even in predominately democratic areas. Shelby County TN is a blue county so this is pretty amazing. In fact it is so unusual and unprecedented that at least one Demoratic candidate is crying foul. Democratic candidate for sheriff, Randy Wade, refuses to concede and may call for an FEC investigation. Blue Collar Republican describes some electronic SNAFU's that may give fuel to an investigation. Hopefully they can get all this straightened out by the next election but otherwise I am thankful that this election went smoothly without any evidence of threat or intimidation. In fact the state of TN had it's highest turnout ever for early voting--over half a million voters! Power to the people!