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Election Law Reform Proposals in 2021 Legislative Session a Mixed Bag
Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws Praises Efforts to Expand Early Voting Sites, Condemns Efforts to Require Fingerprint Verification at Polls FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE — A pair of election law reform bills…
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TSEL Lawsuit Overturns Unconstitutional Criminal Law That Selectively Banned Criticism of Candidates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE — The Davidson County Chancery Court ruled today that a criminal state statute violated Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws and other Tennesseans’ First Amendment right to knowingly falsely…
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Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws Wins Appeal, State Officials Permanently Barred from Deciding Who Can Speak About Politics and When
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Yesterday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by the Davidson County Chancery Court that two of Tennessee’s campaign finance statutes violated the…
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TSEL wins “blackout ban” lawsuit against Tennessee
October 12, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee – Yesterday, Davidson County Chancery Court Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-10-117—a state law that bans direct campaign contributions from nonpartisan PACs,…
