The Commercial Appeal reports that:  Nearly 16 months after Republicans unexpectedly won nine county races
in the Aug. 5, 2010, Shelby County election, several losing Democratic
candidates continue to appeal a local judge’s ruling against them and
seek a new vote.

Arguments before the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Jackson could take place in January, a court staffer said. Republicans control the Shelby County Election Commission, and some Democrats have suggested they rigged the vote

and:  In Tennessee, the party that’s in charge of the state legislature has
effective control over the election commissions in the state’s 95
counties. Republicans made strong gains in the state legislature in a
2008 vote and the following year the makeup of the Shelby County
Election Commission shifted from 3-2 in favor of Democrats to 3-2 in
favor of Republicans.

One of the new board’s first actions was to dismiss James Johnson, a
full-time election administrator appointed by Democrats, and replace him
with Richard Holden, a former Republican election commissioner.

Holden was the administrator when an error was discovered on Aug. 5,
2010. The commission has said that an election worker had loaded the
wrong set of data into all electronic poll books that workers use to
determine a person’s eligibility to vote. They said the result was that
poll workers incorrectly told some voters they couldn’t cast normal
ballots because they had already voted early. The problem was fixed and
didn’t affect the outcome of the election, they said.

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