Under legislation that won initial committee approval Tuesday, all Tennessee voters will eventually mark paper ballots, check them for accuracy and then run them through an "optical scan" voting machine.
This is great news. The article says the bill has cleared one committee but will be held temporarily in the Finance committees until it is known whether Congress will provide funding for replacements. If not, the plan will be to move ahead with state funding.
This is great news and long overdue. It should have been done at the federal level when they passed the HAVA "Help American Voting Machine Vendors" act. We've been waiting seven years for Congress to do something. States are tired of waiting and are now taking matters into their own hands.
(Note that the article has a glaring error regarding "touch screen" systems being used in 93 counties. Touch screens are only used in 17 counties in Tennessee.)
