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Tipton
County Election Commission Office
NOTICE OF COUNTY GENERAL ELECTIONS - CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC & REPUBLICAN STATE PRIMARY ELECTION - CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Thank you for visiting the web
site of the Tipton County Election Commission. Our office
is responsible for the planning, conducting and administration
of all municipal, county, state and federal elections held
in Tipton County. We also maintain the voter registration
records of Tipton County citizens.
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Voter registration
Change of address
Procedures for Requesting An Absentee
Ballot
Early Voting Location
Polling Locations
Contact
The Tipton County Election Commission consists of five appointed
members:
- James Sneed, Chairman
- Theta Rone, Secretary
- Carolyn Murphy, Commissioner
- Dax Hughes, Commissioner
- Letitia Wilson, Commissioner
Our office has a staff of two
full time employees and one part-time employee under the administration
of Linda Burnett.
Our jobs entail verifying petitions of prospective candidates,
receiving and filing campaign financial disclosure documents,
developing ballot layouts, holding early voting and absentee
by mail voting for all elections, training poll workers, conducting
election day voting and tabulating election results.
Voter
Registration
Who may register to vote?
Any citizen of the United States who is or will be eighteen(18)
years of age or older before the date of the next election and
who is a resident of the State of Tennessee and of Tipton County,
unless disqualified under the law.
How and where may qualified voters register?
Qualified voters register to vote
by obtaining and completing a voter registration form and
filing the form with the Tipton County Election Commission
Office. Persons may register in Tipton County in person and
my mail. Click here for your Tipton County Voter Guide
- In person: Registration forms may be completed at the
Tipton County Election Commission office, the Department
of Safety, Department of Human Services, Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation, Department of Veteran’s Affairs,
all branches of the public library, the County Clerk’s Office
and the Register of Deed’s office.
- By Mail: Voter registration forms may be obtained from
the Tipton County Election Commission office, the post office
and a variety of other public offices. A voter registration
form may also be retrieved off of the internet. You can
download a form here Voter Registration
***TO BE REGISTERED IN TIPTON COUNTY THE FOLLOWING LISTINGS BELOW IN YELLOW MUST BE COMPLETED
When and where may a qualified voter register?
In order to participate in an election, a qualified voter must
be properly registered no later than thirty (30) days before
the election. The Tipton County Election Commission office will
process any by-mail voter registration form that been postmarked
at least thirty (30) days before the election.
Change
of Address
Keeping your address updated is important to our office. Where
you live determines where you vote. This affects who you may
vote for, what type of ballot you receive and your polling location.
If you have moved and have not updated your address, please
do so as soon as possible. You must be sure that you are already
a registered voter in Tipton County and your new address must
be within Tipton County. If you qualify, you may download the
change of address form and return it to our office. This form
is to arrive no later than 30 days before any given election. You can
download a form here Change of Address
Procedures
for Requesting An Absentee Ballot
Valid reasons for voting absentee by mail.
A registered voter may apply to
vote absentee by mail if he/she has one of the following reasons:
- Will be outside Tipton County on Election Day and all
the days of early voting period.
- Permanent Absentee voter (requires a Doctor’s certificate
on file.)
- Jury duty on a State or Federal Court.
- 65 years of age or older.
- A handicapped voter who’s polling place is inaccessible.
- Hospitalized, ill or physically disabled voter.
- Caretaker of a hospitalized, ill or physically disabled
person.
- Candidate for office.
- Observance of a religious holiday.
- Person possessing a valid
commercial driver license (Must certify that he/she will
be working outside the county or state during early voting
period and on election day during all the hours the polls
are open and has no specific out-of county or out-of-state
location to which mail may be sent or received during such
time and must have registered in person to vote or voted
previously in person (2-2-115(b)(7)), and must provide his/her
commercial driver license number on his/her current driver
license and provide his/her current residential address
and any mailing address to which ballot should be mailed.)
Procedures
Download a Request for Absentee Ballot form here.
The voter must request his/her ballot in writing over his/her
signature. The request can be submitted as far as 90 days in
advance of an election but not later than 7 days prior to an
election. The request can be mailed or faxed to the Election
Commission Office.
The request will be considered a valid application only if
it contains all the following information:
- The voter’s printed name and signature.
- The voter’s Tipton County address.
- The voter’s Social Security Number.
- The address to mail the ballot to (if different from home
address).
- The election the voter is requesting a ballot for (this
must include the party preference, Dem. Or Rep., if the
election is a primary).
- The valid reason the voter is requesting the absentee
ballot.
- If the request does not contain all of the above information,
the voter will be sent an absentee ballot application on
which he/she shall be asked to provide the needed information.
Mail Requests To:
Tipton County Election Commission
P.O. 456
Covington, Tn. 38019
Fax requests to: (901) 476-0233
**There is special absentee voting
information for overseas citizens
or members of the armed forces.**
Early
Voting Locations
Early voting takes place 20 days before Election Day and ends
5 days before Election Day. All early voting within Tipton County
is held at the Tipton County Election Commission office at 113
East Church St in Covington, Tennessee or the Munford satellite office at 69 College St in Munford, Tennessee.
Polling
Locations
The polls in Tipton
County open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. - Click for
list
Qualifications for Elective
Offices
Directory of Elected
Officials for Tipton County
Contact
Tipton County Election Commission Office
P.O. Box 456
113 East Church St.
Covington, Tn. 38019
Phone: 901-476-0223
Fax: 901-476-0233
E-mail: election@tiptonco.com
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