'SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!' Chants And Horns As Tennessee GOP Pass New Jim Crow Maps
You would think that if Republicans were so sure their policies were the right ones for their states and the country, they would want everyone to vote and everyone to be represented. You would be wrong about that.
After Sam Alito opened the floodgates for southern states to revert to the New Jim Crow era, Tennessee legislators rushed to carve up Memphis, the only district represented by a Democrat and comprised of majority Black voters, which they hope will help them have 9 Republicans representing Tennessee in the midterms.
Worse yet, the requirement that voters be notified of any change to their polling place has been eliminated as well. The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government observed that the bill eliminates that requirement and instead requires county election commissions only to publish notice of the redrawn congressional districts on their “official website, if one exists.”
If one exists. Cool.
After TCOG's article was published, Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins said it was "not his intention to eliminate statutory requirements to provide voter notice of changes to precinct boundaries," and that reimbursement for those mail notifications was available under a different bill.