Senator Joey Hensley, MD: Tennessee 28th District Capitol Hill Week in Review

Legislation passed Through March 19th

New law aims to strengthen integrity of Tennessee’s voting process - The General Assembly has approved a new law strengthening the integrity of Tennessee’s voting process, as well as making the system more flexible in times of emergency. It establishes that counties using an electronic ballot marking system or ballot-on-demand technology do not have to fasten paper ballots and ballot stubs together in books so that each ballot may be detached and removed separately.

Current law requires ballots used in ballot marking devices or systems must have preprinted...