2010 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 6 - Absentee Voting
Part 3 - General Provisions
2-6-306 - Absentee voter dying prior to election day Disposition of ballot.

2-6-306. Absentee voter dying prior to election day Disposition of ballot.

If an absentee voter has voted before an election and such absentee voter dies before election day, the county election commission shall count such voter's ballot or vote. The casting of a proper ballot by a person who dies before the day of the election does not invalidate the election.

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-620; Acts 1993, ch. 518, §§ 16, 21; T.C.A., § 2-6-120; Acts 1994, ch. 859, § 2.]  

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