§ 2-3-301 — Purpose of part - Pilot projects - Convenient voting centers

(a) The purpose of this part is to create a pilot project to determine whether convenient voting centers could successfully be established for local and state elections to make it convenient for voters to vote at centralized voting areas on election day in the county in which the voter is registered, regardless of the voter's precinct. (b) A county shall indicate its willingness to participate in such a pilot project by adopting a resolution by a super majority vote of its county election commission. A super majority of at least four (4) of the five (5) county election commissioners must approve their willingness to participate in the pilot program. The super majority vote shall also be required to establish the number and locations of convenient centers in each county. Unless four (4) out of five (5) county election commissioners vote in favor of participating in the pilot program and the number and location of the convenient voting centers, the voting precincts as described in §§ 2-3-102 and 2-3-103 must be utilized. (c) Upon affirmative vote by the super majority vote of the county election commission, the commission shall submit to the coordinator of elections a project plan for the convenient voting centers. The coordinator of elections shall approve the project plan prior to the county election commission implementing the plan. The coordinator of elections shall not approve convenient voting centers for any county election commission that has not used at least one (1) early satellite voting location throughout an early voting period in the most recent regular November election.

Legislative History

Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 419, s 1, eff. 1/1/2022. Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 768, s 1, eff. 1/1/2017. Acts 2008 , ch. 1087, § 1; 2011 , ch. 455, §§ 1, 2.