Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-7-128 (2024)
Duties after closing the polls
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The registrars shall, immediately after the polls close, cross (X) out the remaining space on incomplete poll list sheets so that no additional names can be written in and shall number those sheets serially and place them in the poll book binders.
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-728.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1991–2001 · leading case: Forbes v. Bell, 816 S.W.2d 716 (Tenn. 1991).
Forbes v. Bell, 816 S.W.2d 716 (Tenn. 1991). “) Poll sheets for Cobble and Nunnelly precincts were unsigned at the bottom in violation of T.C.A. 2-7-128. (ii.) Poll sheets for Pinewood precinct (District II) and Nunnelly contained blank signature line spaces in violation of T.”
Millsaps v. Thompson, 259 F.3d 535 (6th Cir. 2001). “For example, on election day officials must close and secure the polls, Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 2-7-128 to -130, -134, -137 to -138, count the ballots, id.”
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