[EL] Absentee Eligibility In Tennessee (Court Ruling)

[Steven John Mulroy (smulroy)]

National media outlets have done updates on voting rules by state. NYT  has a great interactive guide. 
I'll note they don't always get Tenn right, making it seem more restrictive than it is after recent court rulings.  A trial court expanded TN to no-excuse for the Aug primary.  The TN Sup Ct did overturn that broad relief for November, but still said anyone with underling conditions making them COVID-vulnerable could still vote by mail in November, as could any 'caretaker' of such a person.  

Today we got a trial court ruling clarifying that anyone who RESIDES WITH such persons can also vote by  mail.  This is a self--determination with reference to the CDC website, with no doctor's note required.  Today's decision pointedly notes that the State had conceded at a recent hearing that anyone who self-determines eligibility in good faith can't be prosecuted for perjury.  (You have to sign the application under penalty of perjury--and the State recently added to the form, just below the signature block, a notice promising rewards of up to $1000 for info leading to a voter fraud conviction.)  Unless you're a healthy twentysomething who lives only with healthy twentysomethings and never checks in on Grandma,  you're probably absentee-eligible now in the Volunteer State.