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House approves portal to screen voter registration for eligibility after debate over accuracy and implementation
Summary
Lawmakers passed a bill directing the Secretary of State to develop a portal intended to verify citizenship and felony-disqualification status at registration; debate focused on accuracy, federal data and risk of disenfranchisement.
The Tennessee House approved legislation directing the secretary of state's office to develop a portal to verify voter eligibility — including citizenship and felony-disqualification status — before a person is allowed to register to vote, sponsor Leader Lambeth said on the floor.
Leader Lambeth said the portal responds to incidents his office cited in which convicted felons had been registered to vote in a county; he described the portal as a front-end check intended to reduce inadvertent illegal registrations and the resulting prosecutions. He said the system would allow people whose records indicate a question to provide documentation to the secretary of state or their…
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