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Shelby County commissioners put off a vote Monday, Sept. 28, on $5.8 million to buy a new voting system, a move that election officials say could mean it will take days to count all the votes in the presidential general election.
Supply chain problems are affecting the move to get Shelby County funding approved for a specific vendor.
The details of the winning proposal for the new voting machines were made public Thursday with the signature of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Still to come is approval of funding by the Shelby County Commission.
The Shelby County Election Commission picked new voting machines earlier this month without the public knowing the name of the company or the price. But it has done little to settle the ongoing debate about changes to how Memphis voters exercise their right.
Here are some of the terms being tossed around and process issues being explored in the move to a new voting system for Shelby County that has joined hands with some other balloting issues.
The Shelby County Election Commission is preparing for an increase in absentee balloting in advance of the Aug. 6 election day.
The Shelby County Election Commission delayed a decision Thursday on a new voting system. The commission will hold an in-person meeting sometime next week. The commission also certified the ballot for the Aug. 6 elections in Shelby County.
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Deborah Fisher of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government says the current idea that election commissioners and the public can't see proposals for a new voting system before the commission makes a decision in public is "bad government."
Two Shelby County Election Commissioners say on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that the method being discussed for making the choice on new voting machines would keep the price of the machines a secret until the decision is made because of legal opinions.
Shelby County Election Commissioners will meet electronically Wednesday, April 1, to discuss a new voting system for county elections.
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