If Voting in Tennessee is so easy, why can’t Tennesseans vote?

Renee Parker
3 min readApr 21, 2021

This is in response to Senator Gardenhire’s irresponsible and ridiculous oped that stated it’s easy to vote in Tennessee.

When I was a student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, I requested my absentee ballot to vote in the presidential election. I was registered to vote in Memphis but was attending school in Knoxville so surely, I thought, this was going to be the easiest way for me to cast my ballot.

Provisional ballots

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Renee Parker

The writings of a queer, Black, and fed up feminist.