Tag: Shelby County Election Commission
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Kudos
It was a rough night nationally for Democrats Tuesday. While I’m sure thousands of gallons of digital and real ink will be spilled talking/pontificating about just what happened and why, I’m not going there today. Today I want to thank some folks who went above and beyond right here in Memphis. Memphis for Hillary Shelby…
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Time for a change
Another election, another election night with glitches. At this point, we don’t really know what caused the problems that marred election night 2015 in Memphis, but what we do know is that the Election Commission isn’t very good at doing elections. In nearly every election since 2012 there has been some problem. And while some,…
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The greatest compliment
I’m coming up on my eight year anniversary at this blog, 10th of blogging overall if you count previous platforms now defunct, and the bad old days of literally coding every single thing in html (that really sucked). I really enjoy doing this, even though the pay is bad (none) and the benefits are even…
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Some notes on Early Voting numbers
Early voting is over and the numbers are in. The newspapers (here, here, and here) reporting that Early Voting turnout is a dismal 15% less than in 2010. The question they never even approach is why? Days before the first day of Early Voting at Satellite locations, Democratic Candidates Henri Brooks and Deidre Malone charged…
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Precinct Consolidation Round 2
It was last June…the last time the specter of precinct consolidation reared it’s ugly head. At that time I linked to a lot of things…including the intention to cut the number of precincts to 150 from 236. Last year’s precinct consolidation meant many voters didn’t get cards with their new location until the day of…
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Securing the Vote
Election Day is over, and despite some local reports of problems with too few machines in some places and malfunctioning machines in others…it seems to have gone pretty smoothly. Regardless of your political bent, we should all be thankful for that. It wasn’t that way for everyone, as the video to the left shows. No…