Dozens of election changes proposed by Tennessee legislators
Arlington United Methodist Church saw an uptick of voters late in the afternoon during the primary elections on Aug. 6, 2020. Tennessee lawmakers are considering several bills on election changes in Tennessee. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Here’s a review of some of the bills that would change elections in Shelby County and Tennessee. Some of them have been proposed before and others are new in the wake of the 2020 presidential election year.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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