Senate cracks down on large voter registration drives

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 25, 2019 5:21 PM CT | Published: April 25, 2019 4:54 PM CT

The Tennessee Senate approved legislation Thursday penalizing paid voter registration drives that turn in large numbers of incomplete forms and fail to train workers, legislation spurred by a 2018 Tennessee Black Voter Project drive.

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Ed Jackson Raumesh Akbari Tennessee Legislature
Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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