The End Of The Local Precinct

By Kleinheider Posted on June 11, 2009 at 7:48 am

Chattanooga looks at “convenience voting”:

Last year, the state General Assembly launched a pilot program that allows Knox County to conduct elections with “convenience voting,” under which voters don’t cast ballots at specific neighborhood precincts. Instead, they can go to any of several local voting centers, which are open from the start of early voting all the way through Election Day.

“It is a challenge to find … Election Day officers who know about provisional voters, change-of-address laws, failsafe procedure, and all the rules and regulations needed to run an election,” reads a statement on the Knox County Election Commission Web site. “The voters and the public would be better served by having fewer, better trained and more knowledgeable workers at the voting centers.”

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