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Mid-South News
5:24 pm
Fri July 27, 2012

Comptroller To Audit Election Commission

"[R]ecent issues are just the latest in a series of errors in the Shelby County Election Commission stretching back at least a decade. Nearly every election cycle in the county in recent memory has been plagued by a myriad of errors and complaints of wrongdoing.”

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Mid-South News
1:22 pm
Wed July 25, 2012

Election Commission Corrects Voter Rolls After 1,000 Got The Wrong Ballot

After a recent redistricting, approximately 1,000 voters in Shelby County got the wrong ballots.

Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Robert Meyers said he offered to help employees update their voter rolls after the most recent redistricting. They told him he couldn’t.

“It’s very technical,” Meyers said. “It’s not like you could train me for an hour.”

Meyers estimates five employees are qualified to do the important and sensitive job of altering the listing for voters who switched districts.

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