Title 2, Elections

(1) The county election commission shall promulgate such policies as are necessary to aid the personnel of the election commission office in the performance of their duties with regard to the promotion of voter registration and the electoral process. These duties shall include th…

(a) Each county election commission is authorized to develop, with the advice, assistance and approval of the registry of election finance, an internet based electronic filing process for use by candidates for local public office and all political campaign committees for a local …

(a) The county election commission or the administrator of elections may only accept funding from appropriations of public funds from the United States government, the state of Tennessee, or a county or municipality in this state. The county election commission or the administrat…

(a) If an administrator of elections attends a training, seminar, conference, or other educational event related to elections and such event is outside of this state, the administrator of elections must file a form prescribed by the coordinator of elections reporting, at a minimu…

(1) The commission shall appoint an administrator of elections who shall be the chief administrative officer of the commission and who shall be responsible for the daily operations of the office and the execution of all elections. The duties of the administrator of elections may,…

(a) The majority party members of the county election commission shall appoint one (1) precinct registrar for each polling place, and the minority party members of the commission shall appoint one (1) precinct registrar for each polling place. The appointments shall be made for e…

For each day's attendance upon registration periods and for attendance at the polls, precinct registrars and assistant precinct registrars shall be paid a minimum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day. The compensation may be increased by resolution of the county legislative body.

If a precinct registrar is absent on a day fixed for registration or for an election, the commissioners representing the same party as the absent registrar shall select a person who meets the requirements of this chapter to act for the absent precinct registrar during the period …

The commission may remove any precinct registrar for violation of such registrar's oath as a registrar.

If a precinct registrar dies, resigns or is removed, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the commissioners representing the same party as the registrar. The new appointee shall serve for the unexpired term of the person whom such appointee replaces.

The administrator of elections, deputies, precinct registrars and assistant precinct registrars may administer oaths in the performance of their duties.

(a) Any administrator of elections employed pursuant to § 2-12-201, who has been certified under § 2-11-202(b), shall receive as a base minimum yearly salary at least ninety percent (90%) of the base salary of the county's assessor of property, as provided in § 67-1-508, if the o…

(a) (1) The state shall pay to the general fund of every county in which the administrator of elections is or becomes certified under § 2-11-202(b), the sum of eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) in the manner set out in subsection (b) of this section.(2) In years in which the se…

Nothing in Acts 1986, ch. 930 shall be construed as conferring upon any county election commission, administrator of elections or any other county election official, status as a state employee. All such persons shall be subject to all applicable purchasing and budgetary laws of s…

(a) An administrator of elections who qualifies as a candidate for public office while serving as administrator is automatically disqualified to continue in office as administrator. (b) If an immediate family member of an administrator of elections is on the ballot for public off…

In this chapter, “political party” and “party” mean “statewide political party” unless another intent is clearly shown.

(a) Each political party shall have a state executive committee which shall be the state primary board for the party. (b) The state primary board shall perform the duties and exercise the powers required by this title for its party. (c) The state primary board of each statewide p…

(a) Members of the state executive committee for each party are elected at the regular August primary election immediately before the election of the governor. (b) In each party's primary its voters in each senatorial district shall elect one (1) man and one (1) woman as members …

All candidates for state executive committee membership and for membership in the general assembly shall be bona fide members of the political party whose election they seek. Except as provided in § 2-13-115, a party may require by rule that candidates for its nominations be bona…

Each state executive committee may, by vote of its members, temporarily fill a vacancy in its membership due to death, resignation, disqualification, change of residence, persistent absence from meetings without good cause, or violation of the oath of office until a successor is …

(1) When acting as the state primary board of its party, the state executive committee shall operate subject to the following provisions:(1) The chair and secretary of the committee, duly elected under the rules of the political party, shall be the chair and secretary of the boar…

(a) (1) To be recognized as a minor party for purposes of a primary election, a petition as required in § 2-1-104 must be filed no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon, prevailing time, on the appropriate qualifying deadline as established in § 2-5-101(a) in the office of the c…

(a) (1) Each state primary board shall meet at a public building in Nashville at least once in every even-numbered year at the call of its chair, or on such other occasions as may be necessary in order that it may fulfill its duties under this title.(2) Meetings of each state pri…

Members of the county primary boards shall be bona fide members of the political party to whose county primary board they are appointed.

(a) Each state primary board shall appoint the members of its county primary boards from lists submitted by the county executive committees. (b) Where the list submitted by the county executive committee is not divided fairly among the elements of the party, the state primary boa…

The county primary boards shall organize within ten (10) days after their appointment by the election of a chair and secretary.

Each county primary board shall immediately notify its state primary board upon the occurrence of any vacancy in its membership. The state primary board shall appoint new members to fill any vacancies in the membership of its county primary boards due to death, resignation or oth…

The state and county election commissions shall furnish to the state and county primary boards such information and such access to records as may be required to enable the boards to carry out their duties under this title.

(a) The state executive committees for each statewide political party are urged to jointly establish a calendar of appearances in each county in this state enabling their respective gubernatorial candidates to appear together during the time between the primary and general electi…

A person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the Tennessee national guard, a member of the Tennessee air national guard, or an inactive reservist of any of the United States uniformed military services in good standing must not be…

(1) No person's name may be shown on a ballot as the nominee of a political party for the offices named in § 2-13-202 or for any office to be voted on by the voters of a county, unless the political party:(1) Is a statewide political party or a recognized minor party; and(2) Has …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) and part 3 of this chapter, statewide political parties shall nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election. (b) (1) In a county in w…

(a) (1) Statewide political parties may nominate their candidates for any office other than those required by § 2-13-202 to be nominated in a primary election by any method authorized under the rules of the party or by primary election under this title.(2) Recognized minor partie…

(a) If a political party's candidate for any office dies or withdraws because of military call-up for the draft, or physical or mental disability, such physical or mental disability being properly documented by competent medical authority, or is forced to change residence by the …

On the first Tuesday in March before presidential electors are elected, a presidential preference primary shall be held for each statewide political party. If no candidate will appear on the presidential preference primary ballot of a political party under § 2-5-205, no president…

All counties in the state which have a metropolitan form of government shall bear the expense of holding county primary elections for those political parties qualified under this chapter.

The city council of any such metropolitan government may set any reasonable filing fees up to five hundred dollars ($500).

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this part, municipal elections shall be nonpartisan. Municipal elections shall not require candidates to be nominated by political parties unless the municipality's charter specifically permits partisan elections. When a municipality's char…

(a) In order to qualify as a candidate in a primary election for United States senate or for member of the United States house of representatives, a person shall meet the residency requirements for state senators and representatives contained in the Tennessee constitution. (b) Th…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Southern Regional Presidential Convention Delegate Act of 1986.”

On the date established in § 2-13-205 in 2004, and every four (4) years thereafter, an election will be held to elect delegates to the national conventions of all statewide political parties.

(a) On the date established in § 2-5-205(c) next preceding the election, the chair of each statewide political party will certify to the secretary of state and the coordinator of elections the number of delegates and alternates to the national convention allocated by the national…

(a) On the date established in § 2-5-205(a)(2), the secretary of state shall notify all nationally recognized candidates for president that their names are to be placed on the Tennessee presidential preference primary ballot. Such notice shall also be given at the same time to al…

(a) Candidates for election as delegates to the national convention of a political party shall qualify by filing nominating petitions no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon prevailing time on the date established in § 2-5-101(a)(3) which is prior to the presidential election y…

Nominating petitions shall be in substantially the following form and the information thereon shall be verified by the county election commission: We, the undersigned registered voters of the state of Tennessee and members of the (respective) party, hereby nominate (candidate's n…

(a) At the time of filing the nominating petition, the candidate for delegate to a national convention shall also file a declaration of candidacy which shall be in the following form:I (candidate's name) declare that I reside in County and am a qualified and registered voter in t…