Tennessee Court Rules to Give All Registered Voters Mail-In Ballot Option Amid Pandemic

A roll of "I Voted" stickers sit on a table inside a polling station at a Ross Valley fire station in San Anselmo, Calif. on June 5, 2018. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A Tennessee court ruled Thursday that the state must give all registered voters the option to cast ballots by mail amid the pandemic.

Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that Tennessee’s current “restrictive” limits on absentee voting during the pandemic constitute “an unreasonable burden on the fundamental right to vote guaranteed by the Tennessee Constitution.”