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Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Tennessee Code 2010 Tennessee Code Title 2 - Elections Chapter 7 - Procedure at the Polling Place 2-7-104 - Poll watchers.
2-7-104 - Poll watchers.
2-7-104. Poll watchers.
(a) Each political party and any organization of citizens interested in a question on the ballot or interested in preserving the purity of elections and in guarding against abuse of the elective franchise may appoint poll watchers. The county election commission may require organizations to produce evidence that they are entitled to appoint watchers. Each candidate in primary elections and each independent candidate in general elections may appoint one (1) or more poll watchers for each polling place; provided, however, at any given time, each such candidate shall have not more than one (1) such poll watcher on duty at each polling place. All appointments of watchers shall be in writing and signed by the persons or organizations authorized to make the appointment. All poll watchers' names shall be submitted to the county election commission no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon of the second working day before the election. All appointed poll watchers must have reached the age of seventeen (17) by election day.
(b) Each political party which has candidates in the election and each citizens' organization may have two (2) watchers at each polling place. One (1) of the watchers representing a party may be appointed by the chair of the county executive committee of the party and the other by a majority of the candidates of that party running exclusively within the county in which the watchers are appointed. If the candidates of a party fail to appoint the watchers by twelve o'clock (12:00) noon on the third day before the election, the chair of the county executive committee of the party may appoint both watchers representing the chair's party. In addition, each candidate in a general election may appoint one (1) or more poll watchers for each polling place; provided, however, at any given time, each such candidate shall have not more than one (1) such poll watcher on duty at each polling place.
(e) Poll watchers observing the duties of the absentee counting board shall not leave the room, or place of counting, after the actual counting of the ballots has begun. Poll watchers observing the duties of the absentee counting board are prohibited from possessing any electronic device, including a cellular telephone or pager, capable of transmitting election results to a location outside the room where the ballots are being tabulated.
[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; 1978, ch. 754, § 3; T.C.A., § 2-704; Acts 1981, ch. 478, § 16; 1988, ch. 933, § 11; 1997, ch. 558, §§ 19, 31, 32; 2000, ch. 756, § 13; 2001, ch. 413, § 4; 2007, ch. 125, § 5.]