New GOP election commission appointee voted outside precinct for 3 years

[SharonAnn]

March 26, 2011 Knoxville News Sentinel

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/mar/26/election-commission-pick-moved-didnt-change-his-ad/

Election Commission pick moved but didn't change his address

A man nominated to serve on the Knox County Election Commission voted outside his precinct more than half a dozen times. Rob McNutt, picked Thursday by county Republican legislators for the commission slot, sold his Northwest Knoxville home in March 1999 and moved to South Knoxville. He never changed his address with the county's election office, and he voted seven times from September 1999 to November 2001 before updating his registration.

His appointment to the board is crucial. Elections Administrator Greg Mackay, a Democrat, serves at the commission's pleasure. With three Republicans on the panel including McNutt, Mackay's job would be in play. He could lose it as soon as next month.

... "I've never intentionally done anything wrong," McNutt said Friday. "I try to vote in every election, but I would never violate anything. I'd show them my ID and they'd point me to a booth. I didn't do it with any malice." According to Tennessee law, someone who intentionally votes at the wrong precinct could be charged with a felony.
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Haynes, who wouldn't say whether he nominated McNutt, added: "It sounds to me like whoever was running the election screwed up - having him in the wrong district. It's possible that it could have been an error. Maybe a little old lady punched the wrong keypad."

Since I am an Election Officer and one of the "little old ladies" and I take exception to this. He would've been allowed to vote because he presented himself as still living at his old address and signed the Poll Book stating that was the case. In other words, he deliberately committed Voter Fraud.

Interesting that with all the TN House agitation about requiring Voter Picture ID is driven by the GOP, though the only three cases I've read about in TN in the last six years involve GOP members. One of them, who actually voted twice (once under someone else's name), was the president of the TN GOP Women's Clubs.

Talk about hypocrisy.