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Groups Argue Shelby County Election Commission is 'Chilling Voting Activity'

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Oct 24, 2018
After viewing rejected voter applications at the Shelby County Election Commission, two groups are seeking a court order against the Shelby County Election Commission, which they say is “chilling voting activity," The Commercial Appeal reports. The lawsuit from the Tennessee Black Voter Project and the NAACP Memphis Branch was filed last week and amended Tuesday. It asks the court to require the election commission to “adopt and implement procedures to ensure that eligible voters who submitted timely but incomplete or deficient registration forms can cure any deficiencies” and immediately afterward vote using a regular ballot. Through an open records request, Tennessee Black Voter Project representatives inspected rejected or incomplete registration forms and notification letters at the election commission, which the amendment says “revealed multiple ongoing legal violations.”