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Senate committee advances bill to restore voter list maintenance option; debate centers on removing inactive voters after two election cycles
Summary
The State and Local Government Committee advanced Senate Bill 626 after debate on whether officials should be allowed to remove voters from rolls after two federal elections of inactivity. Elections Coordinator Mark Goins and lawmakers exchanged views on how the process would work and on safeguards for voters.
The State and Local Government Committee advanced a bill that would restore a process for removing inactive voters from Tennessee’s voter rolls and add upfront cross-checks when people register.
The legislation, Senate Bill 626 as amended, would allow county election commissions to work with the state coordinator of elections and state agencies to verify new registrations and resume a voter-list maintenance approach that removes a person after they fail to respond to an address-confirmation notice and then have no activity for two subsequent federal elections (a period the state’s elections coordinator described as…
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