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Friday, October 23, 2026
Courthouse News Service
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Absentee ballots

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal court in Tennessee dismissed a constitutional challenge of a state law that makes it illegal for someone who isn’t an employee of an election commission to give another person an application for an absentee ballot.

Read the opinion here.

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