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Opinion: Despite national noise over voting, Tennessee, Hamilton County ensure fair elections for all

Staff File Photo By Troy Stolt / Sandy Roberts of Harrison helps her husband, Mike, with his mask before heading into the Hamilton County Election Commission to vote during the early voting period in the Tennessee statewide primary elections in July 2020.
Staff File Photo By Troy Stolt / Sandy Roberts of Harrison helps her husband, Mike, with his mask before heading into the Hamilton County Election Commission to vote during the early voting period in the Tennessee statewide primary elections in July 2020. Staff File Photo By Troy Stolt / Sandy Roberts of Harrison helps her husband, Mike, with his mask before heading into the Hamilton County Election Commission to vote during the early voting period in the Tennessee statewide primary elections in July 2020.

By Clint Cooper 4 min read

In 2019, after Tennessee legislators passed a law to curb paid, quota-driven, last-minute voter drives that mound election officials with incomplete and errant information they don’t have the time to verify before an election, the reaction was what we’ve come to expect.

“That’s voter suppression.”

“The disenfranchisement is real.”

“It’s going to be extremely difficult to get people registered to vote.”

Those were the comments of real people in a Pew article about the law.