Tennessee has County Election Commissions in every county, which consist of 5 members. Three members are supposed to be members of the party that has a majority in the State House of Representatives, and two are supposed to be members of parties that have members in the House but which are in the minority. Last November, Republicans gained a majority in the State House for the first time, so the counties are in the process of replacing Democratic election administrators with Republican administrators. Here in an article from the Greeneville Sun of April 26, on how the process worked in Greene County.
There must be some standard, or something equivalent to a standard, for deciding who qualifies for those positions.
To be a “Republican” or “Democrat” — well, shucks, Tennesseans don’t register by party, and they don’t pay dues to belong to a party, so how is it determined that one is qualified to be the “Republican” or “Democrat” member of an election board?
And how about all those people who don’t belong to either of the old parties? Don’t they get any representation on the election boards?