https://blavity.com/tennessee-republicans-to-remove-requirement-to-notify-polling-place-changes
"Tennessee Republicans Set To Remove Requirement To Notify Voters Of Changes To Polling Places"
By Christopher Rhodes • May 11, 2026
As Tennessee Republicans redraw the state’s congressional lines to break up the only majority-Black voting district, the GOP is also pushing a change to the law that may make it harder for many of these voters to cast their ballots. Republicans are pushing to remove the requirement that voters be notified when their assigned polling places change, a move which will likely cause confusion and prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots.
Tennessee scales back notifications for polling station changes
Democracy Docket reported Thursday that the bill passed by Tennessee Republicans to carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district also contained a provision that may interfere with voters’ ability to cast their ballots. The gerrymandering bill contains language that eliminates the requirement that county election commissioners notify voters “immediately” when their polling places or voting precincts change after a redistricting process. Until now, commissioners were required to send individual mailers to affected voters notifying them that their polling stations have changed as well as publish this information in local newspapers. Now, county election commissioners are only required to post information about changes to polling places or precincts on their “official website, if one exists.” The less strict notification requirements, combined with shifts in voters’ polling places as a result of the redistricting, may leave many voters unaware that they can no longer cast their votes in the locations where they have done so before. This danger is especially acute for areas such as Memphis, which was targeting in the current gerrymandering process and will now be divided between three different congressional districts.
Notification change ‘too broad’ and possibly done to cut costs
The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, which sounded the alarm about the notification change, attributed the change to cost-saving measures. “The elimination of the requirement to mail voters information about where they are supposed to vote and their new precinct, if they have one, is likely tied to the cost and time it takes to produce that information and mail it,” TCOG wrote in a warning about the change. “Publishing detailed information in the local newspaper is likely also a cost that the state wants to avoid.” After its initial post, TCOG spoke with one of the authors of the changed notification requirement, Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins, who said that he did not intend the legislation to eliminate notification requirements while admitting that the language of the amendment may have been “too broad.” Goins also indicated that county election commissioners could still mail notices of precinct changes to voters and apply for state reimbursement for these mailers, although they were no longer required to send them.
Critics denounce ‘shady’ notification change
Despite these explanations, the notification change, coming as Tennessee and other Republican-led states rush to curtail or eliminate Black-dominated districts after a Supreme Court ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act, raised alarms of voter suppression on social media. Strategist and “lifelong Dem” Christopher Webb called the change “Shady AF” In a social media post. “If everything is fair and legitimate, why would they need to make it HARDER for voters to know where to vote?” Webb asked. “Because they know exactly what they’re doing. Chaos and confusion is how they win.”
“A voter who doesn’t know their polling place changed doesn’t vote. They show up at the old location, get turned away, and either don’t have time to find the right place or give up entirely,” posted “Gen X” commentator Mike Young. “This doesn’t require anyone to be turned away at the door. The suppression happens before they ever leave the house.”
Political scientist Norman Ornstein, who is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic, called the change “Jim Crow on steroids.”
Regardless of the explicit motivation behind Tennessee scaling back notification requirements for polling station changes, the impact of the new law could affect hundreds of voters who may not know where to cast their next ballots. Given that Black communities were targeted for redistricting, these same Black voters may now have yet another hurdle to clear in order to exercise their right to vote.
https://blavity.com/tennessee-republicans-to-remove-requirement-to-notify-polling-place-changes
(And yet, the Supreme Court is gaslighting us into believing that Democrat redistricting is along racial lines while Republican redistricting is not. They lie, just like their boss.
You decide. Exercise your right to vote in the midterms. -- Suzi)
@Suzianne saidAll of this is racism, don't you see. Hakeem Jeffries as much as admits it, wants to change the states' election divisions Based On Race.
https://blavity.com/tennessee-republicans-to-remove-requirement-to-notify-polling-place-changes
"Tennessee Republicans Set To Remove Requirement To Notify Voters Of Changes To Polling Places"
By Christopher Rhodes • May 11, 2026
As Tennessee Republicans redraw the state’s congressional lines to break up the only majority-Black voting district, the GOP is also ...[text shortened]... lie, just like their boss.
You decide. Exercise your right to vote in the midterms. -- Suzi)[/i]
Based on race???? Racism.
You like a mission to make decisions based on race, Suzianne. You seem conflicted, please restate your whack-a-mole.
@Suzianne saiddemocracy died when a sitting president became senile, it was covered up, then a person selected by the administration, not the voters, was put in place. biden was obamas third term, harris was going to be his fourth.
https://blavity.com/tennessee-republicans-to-remove-requirement-to-notify-polling-place-changes
"Tennessee Republicans Set To Remove Requirement To Notify Voters Of Changes To Polling Places"
By Christopher Rhodes • May 11, 2026
As Tennessee Republicans redraw the state’s congressional lines to break up the only majority-Black voting district, the GOP is also ...[text shortened]... lie, just like their boss.
You decide. Exercise your right to vote in the midterms. -- Suzi)[/i]
@Suzianne saidDemographics have changed since the days of Ronald Reagan, and the clever Republicans know this. They no longer command a majority of the electorate, and they can stay in power as a minority party only by cheating.
https://blavity.com/tennessee-republicans-to-remove-requirement-to-notify-polling-place-changes
"Tennessee Republicans Set To Remove Requirement To Notify Voters Of Changes To Polling Places"
By Christopher Rhodes • May 11, 2026
As Tennessee Republicans redraw the state’s congressional lines to break up the only majority-Black voting district, the GOP is also ...[text shortened]... lie, just like their boss.
You decide. Exercise your right to vote in the midterms. -- Suzi)[/i]
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThis is one of the dumbest posts you've made in a while and that is certainly saying something.
democracy died when a sitting president became senile, it was covered up, then a person selected by the administration, not the voters, was put in place. biden was obamas third term, harris was going to be his fourth.
In fact, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
The only senile sitting president I know of is Donald Trump.
@AverageJoe1 saidAre you stupid?
All of this is racism, don't you see. Hakeem Jeffries as much as admits it, wants to change the states' election divisions Based On Race.
Based on race???? Racism.
You like a mission to make decisions based on race, Suzianne. You seem conflicted, please restate your whack-a-mole.
When Jim Crow Republicans started redrawing district maps to eliminate majority black districts to eliminate Democrat seats, THAT was racism. The Democratic Party, using similar tactics to restore Democratic seats, is actually counter-racism.
As was the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
You're not calling the kettle black, you're calling the teacup black. But I understand that lying is really all you have at this point.
@moonbus saidBut all of this is about race Moonbus. It is not nice to taunt Suzianne. If you take skin color out of all these shenanigans, there would be very little, if any, discussion. The dems are racists to the fullest extent, they try to tip the scales in the direction of race.
Demographics have changed since the days of Ronald Reagan, and the clever Republicans know this. They no longer command a majority of the electorate, and they can stay in power as a minority party only by cheating.
How bout you, in one sentence as I just did, tell us what repubs want to do???
@AverageJoe1 saidNo, you fool.
But all of this is about race Moonbus. It is not nice to taunt Suzianne. If you take skin color out of all these shenanigans, there would be very little, if any, discussion. The dems are racists to the fullest extent, they try to tip the scales in the direction of race.
How bout you, in one sentence as I just did, tell us what repubs want to do???
Republicans started this by their Jim Crow mindset throughout the south and now outsourcing it to the rest of the country.
What democrats are doing is trying to apply the actual standards of the Voting Rights Act.
But you cannot abide that because it is you, sir, who is racist.
@Suzianne saidJoe wouldn't last a day in NYC. He would get his racist lights punched out. He better stick to his KKK neighbor hood.
No, you fool.
Republicans started this by their Jim Crow mindset throughout the south and now outsourcing it to the rest of the country.
What democrats are doing is trying to apply the actual standards of the Voting Rights Act.
But you cannot abide that because it is you, sir, who is racist.
@Suzianne saidI have never read the voting rights act. Does it say something in there about redistricting by race, so that they have an advantage when they vote? I don’t know if I said that right but please enlighten me on what you’re trying to say. I do hope you will not say that district should be divided by race, because that would make you a racist.
No, you fool.
Republicans started this by their Jim Crow mindset throughout the south and now outsourcing it to the rest of the country.
What democrats are doing is trying to apply the actual standards of the Voting Rights Act.
But you cannot abide that because it is you, sir, who is racist.
I am biz minded so I am not up on political discussions very well. Anyway, they never get anywhere… business discussions can definitely get you somewhere. Like when I suggested Nvidia to you all at $165.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidSo would you.
really something to be proud of...mentally ill sneak attacking innocent people
Oh, my heart bleeds for the poor little misjudged republicans. I mean, if you can’t get anywhere by cheating, what’s the world coming to? Admittedly their big honcho, the Donald Orang(e) Utan, has set such a high bar in lying, fabricating, covering up and cheating, that even his pathetic followers are at a loss how to emulate their leader’s example. And now all they’re doing is secretly realigning polling stations to a fair election result and the whole world’s accusing them of some Machiavellian cheating!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4565459/south-carolina-republican-redistricting-clyburn/
South Carolina blocked the redisticting measure that would've flipped a Democratic seat to Republican. What's great about this: 5 Republicans aided Dems in blocking this measure.
Republicans who actually have character should be acknowledged. Bravo to those guys, knowing they'll face the fury of angry MAGA very soon.