“The Shelby County [funding] Commission rejected a resolution to purchase [touchscreen] voting machines for a 2d time, sending a resounding message to the Election Commission that they still favor hand-marked paper ballots, not ballot marking devices.” 1/ commercialappeal.com/story/news/loc…
This has been an ongoing battle. The funding commission is led by Democrats, but the Election Commission is led by Republicans. At least one Republican on the funding commission voted with the Democrats this time. 2/ #HandMarkedPaperBallots 
Ballot marking devices, which the GOP-led election commission wants to force on this heavily African American county, create all sorts of problems, including longer lines & electronic malfunction. They put the burden on voters to make sure the system didn’t cheat. 3/
I’ve written about the dangers of BMDs many times. Here is one of my articles on this issue. 4/ nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/…
If I were on the funding commission, I would object to the Republican plan to buy the new system from ES&S as well. I wrote about concerns with ES&S (including vanishing black votes in Shelby County in 2015) here. 5/ link.medium.com/waCghRzZdib
6/Article in post 1 by @KathsBurgess.
7/ At 15:25, I provided a brief presentation re: the history of election integrity concerns in Shelby County, TN & discussed concerns w/ both ES&S and BMDs.
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