TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jun 29, 2023

Chancellor Louis Oliver III has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the Sumner County Election Commission against the county’s mayor and the county commission will be allowed to continue. The Tennessee Lookout reports that the lawsuit was filed in May after members of the Sumner County Commission sought to evict election officials from their offices and warehouse space used to store voting machines — potentially leaving machines unsecured and out of easy reach of election officials who need ready access to them.