Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, left, and Rep. John Ragan, right, tour the workshop at Emory Valley Center on Wednesday with David Brooks, Work Training Center coordinator.
Secretary of State Tre Hargett said he doesn’t expect a new voter identification law to be a problem in Tennessee in the Nov. 6 election.
It hasn’t been an issue in two other elections in Tennessee this year, Hargett said after a Wednesday morning tour of the Emory Valley Center in Oak Ridge.
He said about 300 people didn’t have photo identifications in the March and August elections, but roughly half of them—or 150 voters—later returned to their local election commissions and presented IDs, which allowed their votes to be counted.
Others might have decided not to come back when they saw that their votes would not have made a difference, even if they had been counted.
The new voter ID law went into effect on Jan. 1. It requires voters to show an ID that includes their name and photograph.
