Former Administrator of Elections Stan Dobson is still the former administrator of elections. None of the Cannon County Election Commission members made a motion to rescind the actions of July 2nd meeting that would’ve seen him return to the administrator chair. Chairman Matt Studd informed the Commission of the Tennessee Code Annotated that dealt with notice of public meeting during last nights meeting of the Cannon County Election Commission. Two days before the July meeting there was an item placed on the agenda for now former Election Commissioner Louise Mayo to address the other members of the Commission. Ultimately that item led to the dismissal of Dobson from the head position. Studd felt that the open records laws had been violated because of lack of notice to the public. However it was pointed out that the former chairman never published an agenda. Chairman Studd called for a motion to reverse the actions of the Commission’s decision. No one on the Commission including new members James Hill or Corey Davenport would make the motion so the meeting moved on. In other actions before the Commission. The commission set the dates and times for early voting. Early voting starts October 17th and the office hours for early voting will be Monday through Friday from 9AM to 1 in the afternoon. Early voting hours will also be open on two various Thursdays from 4 in the afternoon until 7 in the evening. One of those Thursdays will be November 1st. Early voting house on Saturdays will be from 9 in the morning to 12:00 noon. The commission also approved the nursing home voting date which is also November 1st starting at 10 in the morning. they then tabled the approval of the absentee counting board and the mission statement. The meeting adjourned at the Election Office after they locked the ballot boxes
