Thursday, March 04, 2021
A New Level of Voter ID: Proposed Bill to Require Fingerprint Match for Voting Moves Through General Assembly
Voter ID issues may become a thing of the past in Tennessee if the General Assembly approves new legislation proposing fingerprint readers. The bill proposes that the state implement fingerprint-reading technology to verify a voter’s identity. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and all state agencies share the contents of their fingerprint databases with the Secretary of the State to establish this new method of ID verification.
