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The policies governing voter participation are enacted and enforced primarily at the state level. These policies, which include voter identification requirements, early voting provisions, online voter registration systems, and more, dictate the atmospheric condition under which American citizens cast their ballots in their respective states.

This article includes the post-obit information about voting policies in Tennessee:

  • Voter registration details, including deadlines and eligibility requirements.
  • In-person voting details, including identification requirements, poll times, and early voting provisions.
  • Absentee/mail-in voting deadlines and rules.
  • Details well-nigh bedevilled felons' voting rights.
  • Contact information ballot agencies.
  • Summaries of noteworthy policy-related events.

See Ballot administration in Tennessee for more than additional information about ballot administration in the country, including voter listing maintenance policies, provisional election rules, and post-election auditing practices.

Voter registration

The table below displays voter registration information specific to Tennessee'south 2022 master election.

Eligibility and registration details

To register to vote in Tennessee, an bidder must be a citizen of the U.s.a., a resident of Tennessee, and at least eighteen years former by the day of the next election.[i]

Prospective voters can register online, past mailing a voter registration application to the canton election committee, or in person at a variety of locations including the county clerk's office, the county election commission part, public libraries, and numerous state agencies. Registration must exist completed 30 days before an election.[1]

In-person voting

The table below displays in-person voting information specific to Tennessee's 2022 main election.

Poll times

Come across besides: State poll opening and closing times

In Tennessee, most polling places are open between 7 a.m. and seven p.m. All precincts close at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and seven:00 p.m. Central. The polls must exist open up a minimum of x hours and may exist open for a maximum of thirteen hours. An individual who is in line at the time polls close must be allowed to vote.[2]

Voter identification

Come across too: Voter identification laws by state

Tennessee requires voters to nowadays photograph identification while voting.[3]

Voters tin present the following forms of identification:

  • Tennessee driver'due south license with photo
  • Us passport
  • Photo ID issued by the Tennessee Section of Safe and Homeland Security
  • Photo ID issued by the federal or Tennessee land regime
  • United States Military photograph ID
  • Tennessee handgun carry let with photo

The following voters are exempt from the photograph ID requirements:

  • Voters who vote absentee by mail service
  • Voters who are residents of a licensed nursing domicile or assisted living middle and who vote at the facility
  • Voters who are hospitalized
  • Voters with a religious objection to existence photographed
  • Voters who are indigent and unable to obtain a photograph ID without paying a fee

Voters tin can obtain a free photo ID from the Tennessee Department of Rubber and Homeland Security at any participating driver service middle. In order to receive an ID, a voter must bring proof of citizenship (such as a nascence certificate) and two proofs of Tennessee residency (such as a voter registration card, a utility bill, vehicle registration or title, or banking company argument). Visit the Tennessee Department of Prophylactic and Homeland Security'southward Voter Photo ID page for more information.[3]

Early on voting

See also: Early on voting

Tennessee permits early voting. Learn more by visiting this website.

Absentee/postal service-in voting

See also: Absentee/mail-in voting

The tabular array below displays absentee voting information specific to Tennessee's 2022 primary election.

Tennessee voters are eligible to vote absentee in an election if they cannot make information technology to the polls on Election Solar day for one of the following reasons:[iv]

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  • The voter will be outside the county of registration during the early voting menstruum and all 24-hour interval on Election Solar day;
  • The voter or the voter's spouse is enrolled as a total-time pupil in an accredited college or academy exterior the county of registration;
  • The voter resides in a licensed facility providing relatively permanent domicilic care, other than a penal institution, outside the voter's county of residence;
  • The voter will be unable to vote in person due to service as a juror for a federal or land court;
  • The voter is 60 (60) years of historic period or older;
  • The voter has a physical disability and an inaccessible polling place;
  • The voter is hospitalized, sick, or physically disabled and because of such condition, cannot vote in person;
  • The voter is a caretaker of a person who is hospitalized, ill, or disabled;
  • The voter is a candidate for office in the election;
  • The voter serves equally an Election Day official or equally a member or employee of the ballot commission;
  • The voter'south observance of a religious vacation prevents him or her from voting in person during the early on voting menstruum and on Election Day;
  • The voter or the voter'southward spouse possesses a valid commercial drivers license (CDL) or the voter possesses a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) carte and certifies that he or she volition be working outside the state or canton of registration during the open hours of early voting and Election Twenty-four hour period, and has no specific out-of-county or out-of-country address to which mail may be sent or received during such fourth dimension;
  • The voter is a member of the military or is an overseas citizen.[v]
"
—Tennessee Secretary of State

To vote absentee, a asking must be received past county election officials no earlier than 90 days and no afterward than 7 days prior to the election. The completed ballot must so be returned by the close of polls on Election Day.[4]

Bedevilled felons' voting rights

See also: Voting rights for convicted felons

In Tennessee, those who have committed an infamous crime lose their right to vote, co-ordinate to Article i, Department v of the land's constitution. Since many felonies are classified as infamous crimes, individuals convicted of felonies are often disqualified from voting and must petition for restoration of their voting rights upon completion of their sentence or receive a pardon from the governor. Click hither for more information on the restoration of voting rights for individuals convicted of felonies in Tennessee and for a list of felony offenses classified as infamous crimes. Process for restoring voting rights depends upon the year of conviction and nature of the felony committed.

Voting rights for convicted felons vary from country to state. In the majority of states, convicted felons cannot vote while they are incarcerated but may regain the right to vote upon release from prison or at some point thereafter.[6] [7]

Election agencies

Seal of the U.Southward. Election Assistance Commission

Run across also: State election agencies

Individuals seeking additional information about voting provisions in Tennessee tin contact the following state and federal agencies.

Tennessee Country Elections Commission

312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue
7th Floor, Snodgrass Tower
Nashville, Tennessee 37243-1102
Telephone: 615-741-7956
E-mail: tennessee.elections@tn.gov

U.S. Election Assistance Committee

1335 Due east West Highway, Suite 4300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Telephone: 866-747-1471

Noteworthy events

2021

On June 12, 2020, several Tennessee organizations, including the Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Institute and the Tennessee Country Conference of the NAACP, filed a motion in the U.South. Commune Courtroom for the Middle District of Tennessee for a preliminary injunction that would bar enforcement of a Tennessee constabulary requiring first-time voters to vote in person. The plaintiffs cited the COVID-nineteen pandemic as a justification for the injunction. On September ix, 2020, Judge Eli Richardson granted the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, temporarily suspending the outset-fourth dimension voter restriction. The state appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Excursion. On October nineteen, 2020, a three-approximate panel of the 6th Circuit unanimously upheld the lower court'due south order. The Sixth Circuit panel included Judges Karen Moore, Julia Gibbons, and Chad Readler. Writing for the court, Gibbons said, "[Disrupting] the new rules at this point poses significant risk of impairment to the public interest in orderly elections. In this instance, in that location is no substantial impairment to [election officials] in continuing to comply with rules they are currently following."[8] [9]

However, on June 22, 2021, the same three-judge panel, at the conclusion of full briefing and oral argument, overturned the lower court'southward lodge. The console separate 2-1 with Gibbons and Readler forming the majority. In the court's opinion, Gibbons wrote:[x]

" [Plaintiffs'] motion for a preliminary injunction [is] inextricably tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, a once-in-a-century crisis. In their memorandum in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction earlier the district courtroom, plaintiffs recognized that "these are not ordinary times." While plaintiffs claimed that the get-go-time brake burned all first-time voters just past making information technology more difficult for them to vote, plaintiffs' primal concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic ... Fortunately, because of advancements in COVID-19 vaccinations and treatment since this case began, the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to pose a serious threat during the adjacent ballot bike.[five] "
—Judge Julia Gibbons

Moore dissented, writing, "At the very least, COVID-19 is 'capable' of continuing to burden this country through the next general election, and thus information technology is reasonable to expect that ... voters ... will observe themselves in a similar position to the 1 that they found themselves in on November 2, 2020. ... At least until we are certain that COVID-19 will not be a pregnant threat during the side by side election bicycle, the majority'southward threadbare proclamations are non enough to moot this case."[ten]

2018

On October 25, 2018, Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins, a state court judge, ordered the Shelby County Election Commission to let voters with incomplete registrations cast regular ballots on Election Day after providing complete registration data. The commission had previously said that individuals voting on Ballot 24-hour interval with incomplete registrations would exist required to cast provisional ballots attributable to logistical concerns with completing registrations at polling places on the day of the election. Jenkins said, "The harm to the bidder [of casting a conditional election instead of a regular ballot] far outweighs the harm to the Shelby Canton Election Commission. Voter registration is a key component to the election procedure." The suit that gave rise to the ruling was initiated by the Tennessee Blackness Voter Project and the NAACP. Bob Dul, an attorney for the Tennessee Black Voter Project, praised the ruling: "Nosotros tin can all concord that our democracy is strongest when anybody who is eligible can participate. I think this ruling is a huge victory for the citizens of Shelby Canton and we promise it will lead to fifty-fifty more than borough engagement in Tennessee." Linda Phillips, Shelby Canton's election ambassador, said, "We are extremely disappointed past the court's ruling." In testimony earlier in the twenty-four hours on October 25, Phillips said, "It's possible under the format [attorneys for the Tennessee Black Voter Projection are] suggesting for fraud to be committed."[11]

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External links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ one.0 ane.i Tennessee Secretarial assistant of Land, "Register to Vote," accessed October 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Nashville Tennesseean, "What time tin I vote on Election Twenty-four hour period in Tennessee?" November 1, 2018
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.i Tennesse Secretarial assistant of State, "What ID is required when voting?," accessed October 7, 2019
  4. ↑ four.0 4.1 Tennessee Secretary of State, "Absentee Voting," accessed December 16, 2013
  5. ↑ five.0 v.one Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Whatsoever inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  6. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Felon Voting Rights," accessed July 15, 2014
  7. ↑ American Civil Liberties Marriage, "State Criminal Re-enfranchisement Laws," accessed September 13, 2019
  8. ↑ The states District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, "Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Found v. Hargett: Preliminary Injunction Lodge," September 9, 2020
  9. ↑ United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, "Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Institute v. Hargett: Club," October xix, 2020
  10. ↑ x.0 10.1 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Excursion, "Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Institute five. Hargett: Opinion," June 22, 2021
  11. ↑ Commercial Appeal, "Election commission ordered to let voters correct applications, vote normally on Ballot Day," October 25, 2018

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