TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 29, 2020

Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle on Friday ruled that the state must again change its absentee ballot application, this time to reflect its promise to let voters cast mail ballots if someone in their household has an underlying health condition that makes them more susceptible to COVID-19, the Associated Press reports. Lyle sided with plaintiffs after they pointed out that a deputy attorney general made the eligibility comment for co-habitants last month in front of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The form on the secretary of state’s website was updated accordingly as of Monday. Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s office responded by saying that Lyle was “amending her own language – not language that state election officials wrote.”