Bill Requiring Counties To Check Tennessee Voter Rolls For Illegal Aliens Fails In House Subcommittee

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1. Is our state completely filled with RINOs???

   1. Sorry jake99, but they are politicians which means they think, act and speak out of where they have their head.

2. ALERT! Check out this link to see how much money your representatives took from AIPAC, just scroll down to Tennessee, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED. This reveals just how much control they have over our Government and representatives in Washington!
   https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

3. Thanx, emailed “no” voters;

   Re; Your vote against HB1897 for Tennessee Election Integrity

   You are what’s wrong with TN government.

4. To show how ill-advised the members of this House committee are, here is the gist of an email exchange I had with its chairman, Representative Tim Rudd, the day before the vote on HB2304, led by Jody Barrett, to remove vote centers and return voters back to safer precinct voting.

   Here are the five points Rudd says affirms that vote centers are “more robust than that outdated model.” (The outdated model he’s referring to is an election system many citizens want to return to that removes the risky voting machines that no one can inspect inside before, during or after an election; removes the NON-voter-verifiable ballots with QR codes or bar codes that no human can read to verify if the codes contain our desired votes [the tabulator reads the code, not the text on the ballot]; replaces them with a high-security, hand-marked paper ballot; places us back in precincts and away from unconstitutional vote centers which force the internet into our voting locations right next to the machines and computers we can’t inspect; piling high machine upon machine in what used to be a simple process; to name a few changes.

   Rudd: Real-Time Synchronization: We utilize electronic poll books that provide real-time confirmation of a voter’s status. When a person checks in at any center, the system updates instantly across the entire county, making it impossible to vote a second time at another location.

   Limpus: The internet, poll books and synchronization are not needed if we voted in precincts. And in 2023, Maury County proved that to be true.

   Rudd: Air-Gapped Voting Machines: To be clear, while our check-in system uses a secure, private network, the voting machines themselves are never connected to the internet. They are physically secured and publicly tested for accuracy before every election.

   Limpus: Voting machines don’t have to be connected to the internet during an election to be hacked. Here. Plus, no one – not the SEC, nor the RCEC nor election technicians — are allowed to inspect inside the machines before, during or after an election for nefarious components. The machines are not hash verified or penetration tested and all seven of the nineteen tabulators that stopped counting votes on tabulator tapes in the October 2021 Franklin municipal election passed L&A testing during set up.

   Rudd: Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPAT): Every vote cast in Tennessee now includes a paper backup that the voter reviews before submitting. This allows for manual audits to verify that machine totals are 100% accurate.

   Limpus: These BMD ballots are NOT voter-verifiable because the voter’s selections are encased in a bar code. And humans can’t read bar codes to check. Plus, the audits only check for the ballots already voted. They do not check if all the voters are legitimate, or if the machines have been hacked, or if all the poll worker’s documentation is correctly tallied, or if all the machines are running the same software (one Williamson County election showed two software versions), or if the room where voting machines are stored is videoed 24/7, or if the school computer jockeys who may set up the registration system prior to the election are vetted, or…. You get the idea. There’s a lot more to auditing than pulling four tabulators out of 70 and checking to see if the number of ballots match the tabulator tape. By the way, a J. Alex Halderman study showed that 60% of voters do not review their ballot before they stick it in the tabulator.

   Rudd: We simply do not have the 100+ additional poll workers or the funding for new leases and equipment to return to that model without creating massive backups and reducing turnout.

   Limpus: Actually, for many counties, according to Tre Hargett’s data, voter turnout has been higher when citizens voted in precincts. Plus, in most all counties, turnout appears to be trending downward in vote centers, despite the presence of more voters.

   Rudd: Moving backward to an outdated, crowded model offers no gain for safety and only serves to make voting harder for our citizens.

   Limpus: Actually, vote centers cause more vote location crowding as the number of voting sites are greatly reduced when vote centers enter a county. Williamson County lost 42% of its original vote sites. We now have fewer locations expecting to accommodate more voters.

   We’re still wondering whatever happened to logic, regardless the election integrity topic.

5. Would be interested in hearing the reasons for the no votes. Reporting is incomplete. We got the who, what, where and how. Now we need the WHY. Follow up required so we can make an informed reaction to the decisions of our law makers about this legislation not just a gut reaction.

   1. Jsetti,

      We, here at The Tennessee Conservative do the best we can. Only a few select conservative Republicans will actually speak to us.
      The rest ignore and/or block our emails and phone calls. We encourage the constituents of these folks to reach out to them for any
      unanswered questions they may have.