Buried in rapidly evolving story of missing Black voter histories in Shelby County Tennessee is an earlier story about the Diebold vote counting system:
The Diebold system in Shelby County (Memphis) Tennessee has been altered and now works differently in the urban areas of the county, more Black and Democratic, than in the White suburbs.
SHELBY COUNTY PERFORMED UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATIONS IN ITS (NOW UNCERTIFIED!) VOTING SYSTEM - By Bev Harris
SUMMARY: Details on Shelby County, Tennessee alteration of its Diebold voting system.
They inserted a completely different program (not from Diebold at all) which alters the way the system works. Documents show that fully half of White suburbs are now processing information in a different way than the rest of the county, and that this selective and unusual processing has been taking place for at least four years. The alterations made to the system are illegal almost everywhere in the USA and automatically render their $600,000 voting system decertified, although they will claim that they don't need to use a certified system.
One man, who does not work for Shelby County, has been given almost unprecedented access to the system. The alterations allow them to customize how party affiliation is coded, creating different party identifiers in White, Black, and mixed areas.
SHELBY COUNTY PERFORMED UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATIONS IN ITS (NOW UNCERTIFIED!) VOTING SYSTEM - Documents and article
It seems like to me they always kept a back up, more accurate, file - just in case they got caught (in my humble opinion). Their story fails on the simple test - who benefits and who loses. Now they claim it is only the information that was available to the public that was wrong:
Holden [Shelby Administrator of Elections] said he plans to review office procedures, but the commission's "records are correct." He said the question may arise from the information provided to the public requesting such data.
Election chief disputes voting histories claim
Three words summarize for me what the Republicans are doing: illegal, immoral, & un-American.
Recent Links:
blackboxvoting.org
FOX13 Memphis -40,000 Voter Records Erased?
Channel 5 Memphis - Major inconsistencies found in Shelby County voting rolls
Cohen questioning alleged voter roll inconsistencies
Memphis Flyer - "Erased Voters' Gaffe May Force Changes by Election Commission
Cohen questioning alleged voter roll inconsistencies
Here is the link to detailed diary Saturday, PART I, with the Story of how TN-09 Black Dem Voters in Memphis Illegally Stripped of Voting History
On Sunday this diary, PART II, added press and party links:
TN-09 Black Memphis Voter History Erased, Shelby County uses different system to count votes by race
Monday Article PART III
TN-09 Black Voters History Erased? - up to 40,000 black voters in Shelby County