Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-9-110 (2026)
Use of non-standard machines
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The county election commission, with the approval of the coordinator of elections and the state election commission, may provide for the use of voting machines which do not meet the requirements of this title except under this section.
- (b) Machines and procedure for such use shall provide as much protection for the purity of the ballot and against election fraud as do voting machines which otherwise meet the requirements of this title.
- (c) The use of voting machines in compliance with this section and the rules of the coordinator of elections shall be as valid for all purposes in an election as if the machines had otherwise met the requirements of this title for voting machines.
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-910.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2006–2008 · leading case: King v. Sevier Cnty. Election Comm'n, 282 S.W.3d 37 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008).
King v. Sevier Cnty. Election Comm'n, 282 S.W.3d 37 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “” Thus, while the use of keyless machines cannot “otherwise me[e]t the requirements” of the statute’s key-related provisions, those provisions are waived by state approval of such non-standard machines under § 2-9-110, and the machines are consequently “as valid” as if the…”
Mills v. Shelby Cnty. Election Comm'n, 218 S.W.3d 33 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006). “§ 2-9-101, T.C.A. § 2-9-110, and T.C.A § 2-17-110. 2 .”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-9-110(a) — 1 case
King v. Sevier Cnty. Election Comm'n, 282 S.W.3d 37 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “” Thus, while the use of keyless machines cannot “otherwise me[e]t the requirements” of the statute’s key-related provisions, those provisions are waived by state approval of such non-standard machines under § 2-9-110, and the machines are consequently “as valid” as if the…”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-9-110(c) — 1 case
King v. Sevier Cnty. Election Comm'n, 282 S.W.3d 37 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “” Thus, while the use of keyless machines cannot “otherwise me[e]t the requirements” of the statute’s key-related provisions, those provisions are waived by state approval of such non-standard machines under § 2-9-110, and the machines are consequently “as valid” as if the…”
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