Tennessee: DOJ and State reach UOCAVA agreement
From a press release by DOJ: The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement with Tennessee officials to help ensure that military servicemembers and other U.S. citizens living overseas have an opportunity to participate fully in the state's Feb. 5, 2008, federal primary election.
The agreement, which was filed at the same time as a lawsuit by the Civil Rights Division, creates emergency procedures for next week's presidential primary election to ensure eligible military and overseas voters have sufficient time to cast and return their ballots and to have their ballots counted. ...
The lawsuit was necessary after many counties in the state failed to mail requested absentee ballots to Tennessee's military and other citizens living abroad in sufficient time for them to vote in the federal primary election. The availability of ballots was delayed by difficulties stemming from the state's decision to move the primary date to Feb. 5.
The agreement, which was approved by the federal district court in Nashville today, provides extra time -- until Feb. 15 -- for the receipt of overseas ballots and allows eligible military and overseas voters who did not receive an absentee ballot to download and return a federal write-in absentee ballot. -- Justice Department Reaches Agreement to Protect Rights of Military and Overseas Voters in Tennessee Presidential Primary Elections