Hand-marked paper ballots for elections get new push
State Rep. Joe Towns Jr. (right) joins a group of local lawmakers in supporting a return to hand-marked paper ballots as the safest voting system during a press conference at the Vasco A. Smith Jr. Administration Building on Jan. 17, 2020. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Commissioners talk about new voting machines next week, and the election commission plans to buy and begin using new voting machines this election year – but so far the focus has been on paper trails and not paper ballots to mark.
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