NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 430 Nashville voters cast ballots in the wrong race in the lead-up to Election Day, officials have confirmed.
The amount is a stark jump from the initial number that the Davidson County Election Commission provided last week, when officials said the problem was contained to just 212 miscast ballots. Election administrator Jeff Roberts said Monday that the initial amount did not take into account the final three days of early voting, which ended last Thursday. He also provided a list of the affected voters.
The new number places yet another level of scrutiny around Nashville’s voting system, which has faced criticism after The Associated Press reported that voters were being given ballots for incorrect congressional and statehouse races. The problem stemmed from precincts being split during the GOP-led redistricting process, which resulted in Nashville being divided into three congressional districts.
Shortly after the AP’s report last Tuesday, Roberts said his office had worked throughout the night to fix the problem and that voters would receive the correct ballot by Election Day this Tuesday.
On Friday, however, officials reversed course, saying there was still a risk of an unknown amount of voters receiving the wrong ballot.
Under an agreement sparked by a lawsuit filed Friday, voters now may be able to enter a provisional ballot on Election Day at the county election office if they submitted an incorrect ballot during the early voting period. Those provisional ballots will only be opened if the election is contested.
Meanwhile, voters who believe they are given the wrong ballot on a voting machine on Election Day will also be given a chance to use a special paper ballot at their assigned polling places.
Voters whose districts were correctly assigned will cast their ballots on voting machines at their regular polling places.
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There is absolutely no justifiable reason for this BS and every single person who was instrumental in this happening should be fired and never allowed to participate in the voting system ever again.
ESPECIALLY When it happened BEFORE.. IF the same incompetent people who DID IT are still working there.. WHY!?!?
Georgia, Tenn., other states already showing voter fraud. Voting is one of our most precious rights and even that has been stolen from us.
Part of the problem is no real punishment for those involved in voter fraud. That is OUR fault for not demanding accountability in all elections.
We have elected far too many people in BOTH political parties who care more about themselves and their finances than the people who elected their sorry rearends!
Unfortunately, TILL WE GET THE CHANCE to clean house in the dept of injustice and the like, i doubt there ever WILL be accountability.
How low can voter trust go? It’s in negative numbers over here already.
430 people didn’t know they had the wrong ballot. ??? They can’t read ???
If you can’t identify that you have the wrong ballot, you shouldn’t be voting anyway, Throw all of those votes out, and do not allow those individuals to vote again. Ever.
It doesn’t matter how many screwed up ballots there are, dead people voting, ballot harvesting, or voting machines that switch ballots because the feds have made denying election results a crime. Don’t show up in Washington angry over an election that looked like something you would see in Venezuela, or you just might end up in prison. Don’t post anything that’s critical of the ruling elites or you might just get cancelled or even worse eliminated. Big justice is watching us, and they are determined to shut down any opposition to democrat control of Washington.
Big justice? MORE like BIG BROTHER’s INJUSTICE dept…