There are 7 article(s) tagged Tennessee Black Voter Project:

• May 2019

  • Nelson: When it comes to voting legislation, I’m about to make you mad

    Tennessee should enfranchise ex-cons and regulate voter registration drives. 

    By Michael Nelson May 02, 2019

• April 2019

  • Shelby County elections administrator backs voter registration rule changes

    Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips says some changes in voter registration rules are necessary after her experience with organized registration drives in the 2018 midterm elections.

    By Bill Dries April 19, 2019

  • Voter registration groups criticize proposed penalties

    Tennessee Black Voter Project and other groups could face fines for turning in hundreds of incomplete voter registration forms.

    By Sam Stockard April 03, 2019

• October 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

  • 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

  • Glitches, suspicion overshadow heavy start of early voting

    When the first day of early voting in advance of the Nov. 6 election day had ended Wednesday, Shelby County election commissioner Norma Lester offered her verdict on how it went with a brief Facebook post. “Don’t know any other way to say it except the first day of Early Voting was absolute HELL!” she wrote. “Hoping for a better Second day.”

    By Bill Dries October 19, 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