Senate panel kills legislative hopes to expand absentee balloting
Candice Hamilton uses the Super Tuesday primary to teach her kids Savannah, 9, and Joseph, 13, a lesson in voting at the Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church polling location in Germantown on March 3, 2020. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
A Senate committee defeated legislation designed to let more people vote without going to the polls this fall as the COVID-19 crisis is expected to stretch on for months.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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