Chancellor refuses to back off universal absentee ballots
Candice Hamilton uses the election on March 3, 2020, to teach her kids Savannah, 9, and Joseph, 13, a lesson in voting at the Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church polling location in Germantown. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian) (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A Davidson County chancellor is allowing an appeal but refusing to lift an order requiring the state to offer absentee ballots to all voters worried about catching COVID-19 at August and November elections.
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Ellen Hobbs Lyle Secretary of State's OfficeSam 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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