Some Republicans criticized a mailer Hamilton County GOP Chair Gail Greene sent out ahead of May primaries, warning recipients in bold lettering: “fraudulent voting is a crime.”
Greene said the mailers were an educational effort to stop active Democrats from voting in Republican primaries.
“I stand behind those mailers, and I think that they were an educational piece,” Greene said in an interview Tuesday. “They were an opportunity to educate people about what the law says and what crossover voting is.”
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The mailer highlights a law on the books in Tennessee since 1972 to regulate crossover voting in primaries.