6/22/2004 07:32:49 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Local press coverage finally gets around to it. The Davidson County Election Commission (which is the county of Metropolitan Nashville) has had the gauntlet thrown. And the Democrats on the commission are most unhappy about it.

A short summary of some of the problems with the voter rolls here in Davidson County -

Nearly 8,000 didn't vote in the last decade but remain on the active list, which had 303,000 voters as of May, he said. One person hadn't voted in 34 years, he said, but had repeatedly asked for duplicate voter registration cards.

and this

Almost 40,000 voters classified as active have not voted or updated their registration records for two consecutive November elections, he said. They, too, should be moved to inactive status, he said.

and finally,

He also said 300 people were added to the county's voter rolls for the 2000 presidential election, even though they filed after the registration deadline.

Chairwoman Betty Nixon, a Democrat, is more unhappy with the presentation of the problem by Lynn Greer, a Republican, than with the substance of the problem (though she does give some lip service to it). Of course, that has been the problem, that no one made any noise about there being a problem. Now that the Republicans, who control nothing on the commission, are making waves, the Democracts are reeling.

This is the county where ballot boxes have been found in allegedly secure warehouses days after an election, where streets have been paved on election eve night to garner votes, and where, on occasion, more votes were counted in a precinct than voters existed in that precinct. It's nigh time the Repubs take a stand and demand accountability.

And The Tennessean, in fine journalistic fashion, erroneously calls Sharon Wood, a friend of mine and a Republican working in the election commission who has been persecuted in her position, Sandra Wood. Nice.

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