Sanford: Legislature wields 1960s-style tactics to punish voter registration drives

By , Daily Memphian Published: April 21, 2019 7:49 AM CT
Otis Sanford
Daily Memphian

Otis Sanford

Otis Sanford is professor emeritus of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis and political commentator for WATN-TV ABC24 News. Contact him at o.sanford@memphis.edu. Follow him on Twitter @otissanford.

Instead of fueling another racial fight over the right to vote, lawmakers should be promoting better ways to help individuals and groups with the registration process. 

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Black Voter Project Shelby County Election Commission Tennessee Legislature

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