There are 93 article(s) tagged Linda Phillips:

• January 2019

  • Path to new voting machines gets longer with special elections

    There are still issues that must be addressed before instant-runoff voting can be implemented for city elections in October, even with voters overwhleming supporting the process in November.

    By Bill Dries January 04, 2019

  • Politics Podcast: New voting machines and the county’s stand on state immigration law

    Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips discusses new voting machines and paper audit trails and metro reporter Omer Yusuf talks about the county’s stand on the state’s immigration law and minority business growth.

    By Natalie Van Gundy January 03, 2019

• November 2018

  • Election Commission certifies November election results, concerns remain

    Shelby County election commissioners put the last election of 2018 to rest Monday evening, but not questions and concerns about the conduct of the Nov. 6 elections.

    By Bill Dries November 27, 2018

  • Election Commission sorts provisional ballots on way to certifying Nov. 6 election

    Just under 1,000 provisional ballots cast on Nov. 6 but not counted until almost three weeks later will be the center of attention on Monday, Nov. 26, as the Shelby County Election Commission certifies the results of the last election of 2018 in Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries November 26, 2018

  • Provisional Counting Board begins ‘time-consuming’ ballot counting

    The Provisional Counting Board, which meets once following every election, began counting provisional ballots Monday, Nov. 19.

    By Patrick Lantrip November 19, 2018

  • Numbers, trends from Election Day Nov. 6

    The day after the last election of 2018 in Shelby County was down time for politicos in the thick of statewide and district campaigns that in some cases began two years ago. And contemplation about why some efforts fell short and others didn’t. And some efforts that were still in limbo.

    By Bill Dries November 08, 2018

• October 2018

  • Appeals court stays most of ruling on voter registration forms

    The Tennessee Court of Appeals stayed Wednesday, Oct. 31, the effect of most of a ruling last week by Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins governing how the Shelby County Election Commission handles a backlog of voter registration forms.

    By Bill Dries October 31, 2018

  • TN ACLU questions Shelby County voter purges

    The Tennessee chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union wants a review of voters purged from the Shelby County election rolls and possible restoration of any voters who may have been purged since May 2017 solely for missing several elections.

    By Bill Dries October 26, 2018

  • Jenkins rules against election commission, orders immediate voter registration remedies

    Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins ruled Thursday in favor of the Memphis Branch NAACP and the Tennessee Black Voters Project in a lawsuit that will require the Shelby County Election Commission to give potential voters a chance to fix their voter registration applications so they can cast ballots on the Nov. 6 election day. 

    By Bill Dries October 25, 2018

  • Voter registration controversy goes to court Thursday

    The third lawsuit filed this month over elections in Shelby County goes before Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins Thursday morning in Chancery Court.

    By Bill Dries October 25, 2018

  • Black Voter Project, NAACP ask court to intervene in alleged Shelby County Election Commission violations

    The Tennessee Black Voter Project and NAACP Memphis branch are seeking a Chancery Court order directing the Shelby County Election Commission to resolve problems with thousands of voter registrations after the groups’ representatives say they witnessed violations of state law at the county’s voting operations center.

    By Sam Stockard October 24, 2018

  • State elections coordinator reports ‘large number’ of duplicate voter registrations, other problems

    Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins, responding to questions from Memphis state lawmakers, says county election offices are encountering duplicate voter registrations and other problem applications amid record numbers of voter sign-ups for the mid-term election Nov. 6.

    By Sam Stockard October 24, 2018

  • Tennessee Black Voter Project contends Shelby County violating state, federal laws

    The Tennessee Black Voter Project – reviewing voter registration applications in Memphis – believes the Shelby County Election Commission is violating state and federal law and demands changes be made before Election Day Nov. 6.

    By Sam Stockard October 23, 2018

  • Shelby County Election Commission sifts through incomplete voter forms

    The Shelby County Election Commission won’t finish entering a flood of approximately 24,000 voter registration applications onto voter rolls by the time early voting starts Wednesday, Oct. 17.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018

  • Shelby elections administrator promises Cohen she’ll process new voter registrations

    Shelby County’s elections administrator is guaranteeing her office will process some 33,000 new voter-registration applications before early voting starts Wednesday, after being queried by U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen.

    By Sam Stockard October 15, 2018

  • Figures mark county’s voting population on eve of registration deadline

    Shelby County registered 5,768 new voters from December 2017 to May 2018, according to the most current Shelby County Election Commission numbers.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2018

• September 2018

  • Four potential new voting systems for Shelby County get road test

    Three of the four voting systems certified by the state of Tennessee for use in elections would enable voters to get a printed copy of their choices and then complete the voting process by running that printed copy through a scanner.

    By Bill Dries September 23, 2018

  • Ford, Fisher on different sides of instant-runoff voting

    Most of the 50 citizens at a Hickory Hill town hall meeting Monday, Sept. 17, came to talk and complain about city garbage and trash pick-up. There were so many complaints the host, City Council member Patrice Robinson, began setting up a meeting just to talk about the city’s solid waste services, which are in the process of changing.

    By Bill Dries September 18, 2018