Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 1360 - Department of State
Subtitle 1360-02 - Elections
Chapter 1360-02-09 - Procedures at the Counting Center
Section 1360-02-09-.03 - PROCESSING BOARD

(1) The processing board shall contain as many members as may be deemed necessary by the county election commission. All write-in ballots shall be segregated and immediately sent to the duplication board. The processing board shall work in teams of two persons representing each of the majority and minority political parties. The said teams shall receive the ballot boxes from the reception board, shall open the ballot boxes and shall stack the punch card ballots in receiving trays, face forward.

(2) The teams shall remove mutilated or damaged ballots which shall be sent to the duplication board in the following manner. In counties using the automatic devices, called the "ballot tab", the processing board will remove the damaged ballots, place them in the damaged ballot envelope, properly note the name and number of the precinct on the damaged ballot envelope as well as the number of the damaged ballots contained therein. The damaged ballot envelope will then be placed on the top of the completed card tray and the runner or courier will deliver the complete tray with the damaged ballot envelope to the duplication board. The duplication board will then reproduce the damaged ballot as provided hereinafter in rule 1360-2-9-.04.

(3) No effort shall be made by the processing board to segregate the various types of colors of punch card ballots by type of election. All write-in ballots shall be segregated and immediately sent to the duplication board. The trays of stacked punch card ballots shall then be forwarded to the data processing board or to the duplication board as provided in paragraph (2), supra and appropriate entries shall be made on the processing board log (Fig. 4).