Federal judge blocks new voter registration law filled with penalties
Siju Crawford (right) signs in at a voter registration table at an Up the Vote Block Party on Oct. 31, 2018, at First Baptist Church on Broad Avenue in Memphis. On Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, a federal judge blocked the state’s new voter registration law, a reaction to a large number of applications filed in Shelby County in 2018. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A federal judge Thursday blocked the state’s new voter registration law, a reaction to a large number of applications filed in Shelby County in 2018.
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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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