Can you say PRESIDENT GORE !!!!!?

[Samantha]

49. Tennessee was targeted by Rove as a state that definitely would go to Bush

Rove was determined to humiliate Gore by making sure he lost his home state. Tennessee was a "mini-Florida" as far as voting irregularities. Three of the 21 official complaints investigated by the FEC came out of Tennessee. One particular incident I will always remember is an African-American senior (I believe he was a pastor) who showed up to vote and was denied the opportunity. He started DEMANDING that he be given his right to vote, said he was not moving, and he would call his lawyer on the spot. He was allowed to vote.

In some cases, African-American voters arriving at the front of the line were told to go to the back of the long line. People knew everyone in line would not be able to vote because the polling locations would close before everyone in line could vote. Many of the incidents we read about in Florida were replicated in Tennessee.

I followed these events and their aftermath because my family is from Tennessee.

Sam