{"id":1723837,"date":"2022-11-03T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723837"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T21:34:41","slug":"early-voting-in-nashville-results-in-over-200-ballots-cast-in-wrong-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/early-voting-in-nashville-results-in-over-200-ballots-cast-in-wrong-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting In Nashville Results In Over 200 Ballots Cast In Wrong Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fearly-voting-in-nashville-results-in-over-200-ballots-cast-in-wrong-races%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a> election officials said Wednesday that more than 200 voters cast ballots in three different races since early voting began in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nashville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Roberts, the administrator of the Davidson County Election office, told <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-legislature-tennessee-nashville-9553e4e8966cf8196287aa914f0d7b4a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a> that 190 voters cast ballots in the wrong congressional race, 16 cast votes in an incorrect state Senate race, and six cast votes in a wrong state House race.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press notified Roberts\u2019 office on Tuesday that voters were receiving information contradicting which race they could vote in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fix has been put in place,\u201d Roberts said, adding that officials sent corrections to the secretary of state\u2019s office on Wednesday and that early voters would receive the proper ballots until election day.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers recently divided Davidson County precincts during Nashville\u2019s redistricting process, which caused some voters to have been placed in incorrect groups in the wrong districts.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts argued that the problem affected multiple voters across all Davidson County.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/some-voters-cast-wrong-ballots-in-split-nashville-district-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a> on Tuesday, Roberts said \u201cnothing can be done\u201d when asked how to correct the votes cast incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think about it, we voted 45,000+ people early voting. I don\u2019t know which ballots they are,\u201d he said. \u201cThey all go into that scanner, and there\u2019s nothing that identifies who, where, or anything on that ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts was also asked to share his thoughts about how it plays into the lack of trust with voters and the election system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if there was lack of trust, it would be mitigated to some degree when you see the staff at an election commission, immediately upon recognizing that there is an issue out there, that they are fixing it,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThis is not something they swept under the rug and hope it goes away, and they are not hiding what\u2019s going on. They are sitting down and inviting the press to come over and tell you what we experienced and what we\u2019ve done to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Democratic Party blamed Republicans for causing the issue and said it removes voting power from communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Secretary of State is actively participating in voter suppression,\u201d the Tennessee Democratic Party tweeted Wednesday. \u201cThey know they\u2019re giving people the incorrect ballots, and they don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odessa Kelly, the Democratic nominee in the 7th Congressional District, urged voters to \u201clean deep into the process\u201d at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo every person that feels frustrated, disenfranchised, don\u2019t disengage,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cIf you can hear my voice, if you can see my face, this is your election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is your district,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is your future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly faces incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green, who said the balloting issue in Davidson County left him \u201cshocked and disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should ever have to worry about whether or not their vote was cast properly,\u201d Green said in a statement to The Associated Press. \u201cThe Davidson County Election Commission needs to fix this immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton called the idea \u201cridiculous\u201d to blame the error on a congressional map, emphasizing each district has an equal population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re complaining about something they could\u2019ve sued about, but they didn\u2019t sue because they couldn\u2019t win,\u201d Sexton told the AP. \u201cSo, it\u2019s kind of hypocritical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Democrats had said earlier this year that they would file a lawsuit over the map, but never followed through.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Campbell, a Nashville resident, told The Associated Press her voter registration card displayed the 6th District, where she voted during the primary election and had planned on voting in the general election. However, after hearing about the error, she realized she should have voted in the 7th District, which is where she ultimately voted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just would have approached the campaign a lot differently if I had known my neighborhood was in (Kelly\u2019s) district,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI would have canvassed a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee election officials said Wednesday that more than 200 voters cast ballots in three different races since early voting began in Nashville. Jeff Roberts, the administrator of the Davidson County Election office, told The Associated Press that 190 voters cast ballots in the wrong congressional race, 16 cast votes in an incorrect state Senate race, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1723840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}