Reply #6: TN: More Citizens Choosing to Use Paper [View All]

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Why not? At least they have a better chance to get their votes counted. DREs just “disappear” you vote. Awful, undemocratic. Volunteers of America starting in Tennessee, changing back to paper.




URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/election/article/0,1406,KNS_630_4638964,00.html

Plans made to handle influx of paper ballots

URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/election/article/0,1406,KNS_630_4638964,00.html
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/election/article/0,1406,KNS_630_4638964,00.html

By MICHAEL SILENCE, [e-mail]
April 21, 2006

Requests for paper ballots during early voting is on a slight increase, but it is still running less than 10 percent of the total votes cast.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission is making plans to count the unprecedented number of paper ballots, and that process will be open to the public.

Through nearly half of the early voting period, 3,010 people have cast ballots. That's about the same number of people who voted during the first seven days of early voting in 2002.

Of the 3,010 people who've voted, 262 did so on a paper ballot, or 8.7 percent. For the first three days of early voting, that percentage was 7.2.