The Nashville City Paper reports another case of one house but two different voting locations. Exiting a Glencliff-area polling place Thursday morning where she had just voted in the Democratic primary, Virginia Welch picked up on a procedural error in Thursday’s election. Welch and husband Michael Muldoon, who lives in the same residence and showed…
The Associated Press talks to voters today. I’m not going to pull a quote from it but the whole piece is rather fascinating on how people vote, and why.
Out of Hamilton County, redistricting is causing some problems. WTVC with the story. Redistricting is causing some headaches in Hamilton County, not only for voters, but for election officials as well. Daniel Witherow has lived in the Emma Wheeler Homes for the last 9 years, and he’s voted in every election, including Thursday’s. He used…
From the Senator himself on the TNDP website on his family’s experience voting today: Barbara was asked for her photo identification. She doesn’t have a photo on her driver’s license so she provided the election workers with her state-issued retirement card and her Metro-issued judge’s pass. The latter included her photo. In spite of the…
Got to give him credit, but Robert Meyers isn’t hiding from the media regarding voter problems in Shelby County. Jackson Baker with the story. Give this to Robert Meyers, the mild-mannered and much-beleaguered chairman of the Shelby County Election Commission: He understands that he is accountable to the public, and he is willing to be…
More from Blake Farmer in Nashville who is talking to folks coming out to vote. A very interesting perspective about one voter saying she wants face time with candidates. Poll workers in Davidson County are calling turnout “light but steady.” Many of the races may be decided by face-to-face campaigning. Voters are getting calls…
Bill Dries is at the polling locations in Shelby County and it looks sort of dismal in many places due to inactivity of voters and the continual clearing up the mess of getting ballots right. How slow is it at some polling places? At one election day precinct I saw a campaign worker at the…
From the Daily News Journal A printing error that left a few words off thousands of voter registration cards sent out last month shouldn’t affect voters when they go to the polls today, according to Rutherford County’s elections administrator. Polls open at 7 a.m. and remain open until 7 p.m. for Republican and Democratic primaries…
Blake Farmer at WLPN has a story about how Super PACs in Nashville have been rolling out the political ads. A few Super PACs are keeping political ads – most of them negative – on the air in Tennessee through Election Day. The biggest spending is in the 6th Congressional District. Nashville health care investor…
A lot of money and harsh words happening in primaries in Nashville. WSMV with the story: One of the most heated congressional primaries is between U.S. Rep. Diane Black and challenger Lou Ann Zelenik for the 6th District of Tennessee. The Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate is also set to be determined Thursday. Incumbent…