Tennessee Voters Won’t Be Purged From Voter Rolls After Being Asked to Prove Citizenship
Civil rights advocates are now threatening to sue Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett over the letters.
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Civil rights advocates are now threatening to sue Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett over the letters.
A few months after a federal judge blocked Tennessee from wrongfully denying people with past felony convictions of their right to vote, a conservative panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has paused the decision.
Tennessee election officials sent letters this month to over 14,000 individuals asking them to verify their U.S. citizenship in what one Democratic state legislator is calling an attempt to intimidate voters.
In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case out of Pennsylvania pushing the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.
Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a series of recent policies put in place that disenfranchise voters.
Today, a 2-1 panel on a Tennessee trial court ordered the Tennessee Legislature to redraw the state Senate map and upheld the state’s House map.
On Thursday, Oct. 5, a three-judge panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a challenge to a Tennessee law that criminalizes absentee ballot application distribution.
On Monday, Oct. 2, Tennessee House Rep. Justin Jones (D) filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Tennessee, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) and others challenging his expulsion from the state’s House of Representatives and certain House rules.
On Wednesday, Aug. 9, a coalition of civil rights organizations and individual voters filed a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s congressional and state Senate districts
On Friday, July 21, the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, Mark Goins (R), announced a change to Tennessee’s felony rights restoration policy in a memo to county elections commissions across the state, adding a new step to an already arduous process.
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