Saturday, April 11, 2009

A lot of material to work with

A little known (or appreciated) policy in Tennessee is that whichever party has the majority of total members in the General Assembly gets the majority of seats on every county's Election Commission--the people that hire the person who runs every county's election apparatus. Well, I just saw this Tom Humphrey report that,
County election administrators who are fired because of their political affiliation could successfully file lawsuits against county election commissions, according to state Attorney General Bob Cooper.
Given the challenges that seem inherent to administering elections (and have seemed largely intractable for Democrat-chosen election administrators) the newly-Republican controlled election commissions should have no problem removing many election administrators "for cause."

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