438 Voters Assigned Wrong Ballots In Davidson County Can Cast Provisional Ballots (Update 11.10.22)
***Update 11.10.22 – Mainstreet Nashville reports that only 117 voters out of the 438 affected by the ballot bungle visited the Davidson County Election to cast a corrected ballot by the time the polls closed Tuesday night.***
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The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] –
Davidson County voters that were mistakenly assigned ballots with the wrong Congressional or State House districts are eligible to cast provisional ballots on election day, November 8th.
The Davidson County Election Commission recently posted a list of 438 voters affected by the ballot bungle, all of which are now eligible to cast a provisional ballot.
The number of reported Davidson County ballots affected has increased from just over 200 to 438.
If an affected voter is on the list, they must go to the Davidson County Election Commission office at 1417 Murfreesboro Pike on Election Day to get the corrected provisional ballot. The ballots will only include those races affected by the mixup.
Election officials note that these special paper provisional ballots will only be counted if the affected races are contested after the election.
The announcement by the Davidson County Election Commission came only after a lawsuit was filed in the Davidson County Chancery Court by the League of Women Voters and two Nashville voters, represented by ACLU Foundation of Tennessee attorneys.
The ACLU said late Friday that a legal agreement had been reached with the Tennessee Secretary of State, Tre Hargett, the Davidson County Election Commission and Governor Bill Lee, who were all named in the suit.
Jeff Roberts, the county’s Election Commission Administrator, said on November 2nd that the error that caused the mixup has since been resolved stating that the county’s mapping software misclassified some homes on the edge of district boundaries.
However, Nashville law director Wally Dietz told reporters that the situation is still in play stating that election officials have identified others who haven’t voted yet who might still receive a faulty ballot due to ongoing problems with the mapping software.
According to election officials, those individuals will get special paper ballots with the correct races when they arrive at their polling places on election day.
The Davidson County Election Commission was not aware of the ballot problem until the Associated Press alerted them after early voting had already been going on for two weeks.
About the Author: Jason Vaughn, Media Coordinator for The Tennessee Conservative ~ Jason previously worked for a legacy publishing company based in Crossville, TN in a variety of roles through his career. Most recently, he served as Deputy Director for their flagship publication. Prior, he was a freelance journalist writing articles that appeared in the Herald Citizen, the Crossville Chronicle and The Oracle among others. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelor’s in English-Journalism, with minors in Broadcast Journalism and History. Contact Jason at news@TennesseeConservativeNews.com
