Chancellor: ‘Shame’ on state for not following absentee voting order
Poll worker Shelby Wordlaw gestures to voters to approach the machines at the Great Hall polling location in Germantown as voters go to the polls on March 3, 2020. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian) (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A Davidson County chancellor chastised the state Thursday for not following a court order on mail-in absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic and ordered it to put up a new form by Friday and tell county election officials to comply.
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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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