There are 36 article(s) tagged new voting systems:

• January 2023

  • Top 5 County Commission votes of 2022

    These five decisions in 2022 topped a review of the Shelby County Commission’s most crucial votes as chronicled by The Daily Memphian’s Commission Scorecard.

    By Bill Dries January 08, 2023

• October 2022

  • Ballot Basics: Early Voting Oct. 19-Nov. 3

    Here’s all you need to know about voting early and the new system that offers voters a choice between new voting machines and hand-marked paper ballots.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2022

  • New voting machines prepped for start of early voting

    The November ballot features four proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution, which will be presented by Shelby County’s new voting machines.

    By Bill Dries October 13, 2022

  • Election Commission offers demonstrations of new voting system

    The new voting system makes its countywide debut Oct. 19 with the start of early voting in Shelby County, ahead of the Nov. 8 election day.

    By Bill Dries October 03, 2022

• July 2022

  • Here are the changes voters will be navigating when early voting begins

    Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips and Ian Randolph of the Shelby County Voter Alliance join the On The Record podcast to discuss the August and November elections.

    By Bill Dries July 07, 2022

• June 2022

  • New voting equipment for November arrives; early voting hours set for August ballot

    The new system includes a paper trail along with updated touch screen machines and an option to vote hand-marked paper ballots. 

    By Bill Dries June 28, 2022

  • NAACP calls for better paper ballot backups for August elections

    The Memphis Branch NAACP and other organizations say problems at an early voting location ahead of the May county primary election day have prompted their push for paper ballots as a backup. 

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: New voting machines, raises over bonuses and license-plate postage

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the votes on the end of the budget season and several unrelated longstanding controversies the commission got off its plate in a marathon June 6 meeting.

    By Bill Dries June 16, 2022

  • Heated County Commission debate results in new voting system for November

    The commission voted to fund a new voting system with both touch-screen machines with a paper trail as well as hand-marked paper ballots. 

    By Bill Dries, Julia Baker June 09, 2022

• March 2022

  • Election precinct changes met with accusations of disenfranchisement

    The county could see new voting machines by August of this year, but two issues indicate overall differences between the Shelby County Commission and the Election Commission. 

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2022

• January 2022

  • New voting system in limbo as May county primaries near

     A Chancery Court lawsuit preserved the stalemate between the Shelby County Election Commission and the Shelby County Commission over a way forward in the controversy. 

    By Bill Dries January 27, 2022

  • New Shelby County voting machines unlikely this year

    The first of the year’s elections is the May county primaries, with early voting starting in mid-April.

    By Bill Dries January 27, 2022

• August 2021

  • Both parties like ‘low-tech’ voting, former commissioner says

    One of the county’s most vocal advocates for a new voting system with hand-marked paper ballots says the push for such a system isn’t part of the national political movement that contends Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.

    By Bill Dries August 15, 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Crossing party lines and a new chairman

    The Commission Scorecard also looks at a possible compromise to the stand-off over a new voting system that may be beyond reach.

    By Bill Dries August 04, 2021

  • Election commission chief says Democrats want ‘cloudy elections’

    Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Brent Taylor said on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, that local Democrats want disputed election results, referring to the push for paper ballots, which he believes will lead to chaos.

    By Bill Dries August 01, 2021

• July 2021

  • Election Commission chairman says County Commission not cooperating on voting machines

    Brent Taylor says the County Commission decision to take its own bids on a new voting system “effectively bypasses” the Election Commission and “doesn’t indicate a willingness to work cooperatively.”

    By Bill Dries July 27, 2021

  • County Commission returns from five-week break

    Monday’s commission agenda includes confirming a health director whose nomination is in trouble, possibly reopening the contentious question of a property tax hike, a long-delayed decision on a voting system for the county, and appointing a new judge.

    By Bill Dries July 26, 2021

  • New voting machine issue is moving again in County Commission

    A vote Monday by the Shelby County Commission on a new voting system could mean new voting machines by the May county primary elections. 

    By Bill Dries July 21, 2021

• April 2021

  • Talks start over new voting system compromise

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Election Commission Chairman Brent Taylor talks about new discussions with county commissioners two months after the Election Commission voted to go to court in the simmering dispute.

    By Bill Dries April 24, 2021

• February 2021

  • Election Commission to take County Commission to court over new voting machines

    On a party-line vote Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Shelby County Election Commission voted 3-2 to take the County Commission to court in the ongoing standoff over a new voting system for the 2022 elections. 

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2021

• November 2020

  • Collierville runoff early voters get first use of new voting system starting Wednesday

    The Shelby County Election Commission says its hand was forced by having to keep voting machines used in the November elections sealed until all results from that election are certified next week. Early voting in the two Collierville runoff elections starts Wednesday.

    By Bill Dries November 17, 2020

• October 2020

  • County Commission Scorecard: Police reform bundle, voting machine contract

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the final stand of a set of four police reforms applying to county law enforcement and what may be the last stand of the $5.8 million contract to buy a new voting system for the county.

    By Bill Dries October 16, 2020

  • County Commission rejects contract for voting system

    A $5.8 million contract for a new voting system in Shelby County failed Monday, Oct. 12, in a 6-5 vote by the Shelby County Commission.

    By Bill Dries October 13, 2020

  • County Commission to take final votes on police reform measures

    The Monday County Commission agenda also includes a return to a $5.8 million contract to buy a new voting system for Shelby County and a moratorium on delinquent tax sales on property in South Memphis.

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2020

• September 2020

  • County Commission Scorecard: Voting machines, board of health and no more freeze

    The County Commission Scorecard sorts out a quartet of items from this week’s session — some that have been on the commission’s plate for some time. 

    By Bill Dries September 30, 2020