§ 2-2-133 — Report to coordinator of elections of deaths in state - Notification of county commissions - Information from social security administration death master file - Cancellation of registrations - Purge of records

(a) (1) The state office of vital records of the department of health shall furnish the coordinator of elections a monthly, or more frequent, report, as required for compliance with this section, of all persons eighteen (18) years of age or over who have died in the state. The report shall list the deaths by county with the names in alphabetical order. The report shall contain each decedent's full name, last address, date and place of birth, and social security number. (2) The coordinator of elections shall, after receipt of the report, notify each county election commission of all persons of voting age who died with an address in their county. (b) The coordinator of elections shall annually obtain information regarding Tennessee residents eighteen (18) years of age or over identified as deceased by the federal social security administration death master file. The coordinator of elections shall, after obtaining the information, notify each county election commission of all persons of voting age who are listed as deceased with an address in their county. (c) The county election commission shall cancel the registration of each deceased person listed under the reports in subsection (a) or (b), in accordance with this chapter. (d) In accordance with § 2-2-106(a)(3) , each county election commission shall purge voting registration records of all deceased registered voters appearing on the report transmitted by the coordinator of elections at least every thirty (30) calendar days, and, beginning with the first day of any period of early voting, daily through the day of the election as such information is transmitted from the coordinator of elections.

Legislative History

Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1977, ch. 128, § 3; T.C.A., § 2-233; Acts 2006, ch. 578, §§ 1, 2; 2006, ch. 965, § 4.