Footnote to the preceding

One related bit of voting good news was reported in the Tennessean newspaper last week and relayed via The Brad Blog:

The [state] Senate voted on Thursday to require all voting in Tennessee to be done on machines that leave a paper record, although the bill's passage comes too late for a statewide switchover before this fall's presidential election.

The Senate's unanimous vote on the so-called "Voter Confidence Act," which has also passed the House, will eventually require every county to use voting machines by 2010 that generate a paper record of ballots that can be checked in recounts or audited. ...

Tennessee, like other states, first adopted touch-screen machines that don't create a verifiable paper trail.

And now, like a number of those other states, has come to realize it was a dumb idea. Good.