There are 260 article(s) tagged Shelby County Election Commission:

• July 2020

  • Germantown ballot gains more names

    Jon McCreery, Amy Eoff and Scott Williams have all announced plans to seek office on Germantown's November ballot. Additionally, Sherrie Hicks and Brian Curry have filed petitions with sufficient signatures.

    By Abigail Warren July 21, 2020

  • Nelson: How is the Aug. 6 election screwy? Let me count the ways, part 2

    Local elections are always a mess. Here are ways they’re especially messy this year.

    By Michael Nelson July 21, 2020

  • Election commission bills Germantown $19,000 for Barzizza lawsuit

    Germantown has been charged for legal counsel expenses the Shelby County Election Commission incurred after John Barzizza contested mayoral election results.

    By Abigail Warren July 16, 2020

• June 2020

  • S.A.V.E. asks high court to hear election machine case

    A Shelby County group seeking election security reforms is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case to prohibit the use of certain election machines and provide for a paper trail of election ballots.

    By Sam Stockard June 30, 2020

  • No new election machines in August balloting

    Supply chain problems are affecting the move to get Shelby County funding approved for a specific vendor. 

    By Bill Dries June 17, 2020

• May 2020

  • Harris signs letter of intent for new $4 million voting system

    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.

    By Bill Dries May 21, 2020

  • Election changes churn political waters

    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.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2020

  • Ballot Basics: Terms of Change

    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.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2020

  • Election Commission approves new voting system

    Shelby County election commissioners approved a new voting system for Shelby County Thursday night, May 7, that will include machines with a paper audit trail.

    By Bill Dries May 08, 2020

  • Election Commission meets Thursday on new voting system

    Shelby County Election Commissioners will meet Thursday, May 7, online to discuss and possibly select a new voting system for the county.

    By Bill Dries May 04, 2020

• April 2020

  • Election Commission prepares for increase in absentee ballots

    The Shelby County Election Commission is preparing for an increase in absentee balloting in advance of the Aug. 6 election day.

    By Bill Dries April 29, 2020

  • Election commissioners get voting machine proposals, public doesn’t

    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.

    By Bill Dries April 24, 2020

  • Politics Podcast: Secret bids, legal opinions and new voting machines

    Shelby County election commissioners Brent Taylor and Bennie Smith talk about the complex path to making a decision on new voting machines.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2020

  • Path to new voting machines still complex, secretive

    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.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2020

  • Election Commission waits to set August ballot until possible appeals

    The withdrawal deadline for the Aug. 6 ballot passed Thursday with several withdrawals from races on the Shelby County ballot. But much of the attention is on the decision the day before by the Tennessee Democratic Party to remove four contenders from the party primaries in Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries April 09, 2020

• March 2020

  • Election Commission to hold special meeting Wednesday on new voting machines

    Shelby County Election Commissioners will meet electronically Wednesday, April 1, to discuss a new voting system for county elections.

    By Bill Dries March 27, 2020

  • Minor changes mark Super Tuesday certification by Election Commission

    None of the changes in vote totals affect the outcome of the Super Tuesday presidential primaries and countywide primaries for General Sessions Court Clerk in Shelby County. The meeting is one of the last in-person deliberations by a public body as elected bodies move to online or conference call public meetings.

    By Bill Dries March 23, 2020

  • ‘Complex’ process ahead for new voting machines

    Shelby County elections administrator Linda Phillips says her goal is still to have a new voting system in place when early voting begins July 17 in advance of the Aug. 6 election day.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2020

  • August ballot races start to fill out

    With three weeks to the filing deadline, some incumbent state legislators still haven't pulled their petitions to seek new terms in Nashville and a few of those races are filling up with potential challengers.

    By Bill Dries March 12, 2020

• February 2020

  • Sanford: Voting is serious. Just ask 105-year-old Charlotte Robertson

    Election commission records show Robertson has participated in every presidential election going back to the 1970s – and no doubt long before that. And she rarely misses a Memphis municipal, county or state election, including primaries.

    By Otis Sanford February 27, 2020

  • Shelby County early vote tops 21,000 with two days to go

    The total is ahead of the early vote at this point four years ago but the difference narrowed over the weekend. And Davidson County leads the state's 95 counties in turnout through Saturday.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2020

  • County attorney: Funding for new voting machines only through referendum

    The Shelby County Commission will have to hold a public referendum if it wants to use capital funding for new voting machines, according to commission attorney Marcy Ingram.

    By Omer Yusuf February 11, 2020

• January 2020

  • Shelby County needs cheap, secure hand-marked paper ballots

    You can’t hack a flesh-and-blood voter marking his own ballot. 

    By Joe Towns, Marlene Strube January 27, 2020

  • Sixth Circuit affirms dismissal of voting machine lawsuit

    A federal appeals court has agreed with a Memphis federal court decision tossing out a case seeking to do away with the touchscreen voting machines used in Shelby County elections.

    By Bill Dries January 24, 2020

  • New Shelby election machinery debate heightens fraud claims on all sides

    Shelby County Commissioner Michael Whaley may have framed the debate on a new voting system that is about to land at the county building.

    By Bill Dries January 22, 2020