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Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-2-125

Rejected registration — Right to appeal — Reports of violations

Known as the Election Code

The act spans §§ 2–2 (475 sections).

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Tenn.Conference of the NAACP v. William Lee (2024)

Most recently applied in Tenn. State Conference of the NAACP v. William Lee (June 2025)

Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-225.

(1) If the administrator of elections determines that the registrant is not entitled to be registered, the administrator shall tell the registrant the reason, write the reason on the back of the original permanent registration record, and file the original and the duplicate alphabetically in a binder of rejected registrations.

(2) The administrator shall tell the registrant that the registrant has a right to appeal the decision to the commission within ten (10) days and offer the registrant an appeal form.

(3) The action of the commission on the registrant's application for registration on appeal shall be a final administrative action.

(4) If the commission determines, after notice and hearing for the appellant, that the appellant was not entitled to register, the commission shall give the appellant a written statement of its reasons for so holding.

(5) If the commission believes that the appellant has violated the law in registering, it shall report the matter to the grand jury and the district attorney general.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.