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Tennessee Code Title 2. Elections § 2-4-103

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Officers of elections, judges, machine operators, precinct registrars and assistant precinct registrars shall be registered voters and shall reside in the county in which they are appointed to serve.

(b) Inspectors shall be registered voters at a polling place in the county and shall be inhabitants of the county.

(c) In counties having a population of less than six hundred thousand (600,000) according to the federal census of 1970 or any later federal census, the county election commission may appoint persons as precinct registrars who shall be registered voters at a polling place in the county and shall be inhabitants of the county.

(d)(1) In counties having a metropolitan form of government, the county election commission may appoint persons as precinct registrars who shall be registered voters at a polling place within each legislative district.

(2) Inspectors shall be registered voters at a polling place in the legislative district in those counties having a metropolitan form of government.

(e) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a county election commission may appoint as an election official a person who has reached sixteen (16) years of age and who meets all other requirements to serve. This section does not prohibit a high school student appointed as a poll official from receiving compensation in addition to having an excused absence.

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