Election officials in Tennessee said that the hundreds of citizens who voted in incorrect congressional races due to a redistricting mishap will be able to cast provisional ballots on Election Day and vowed to get down to the root cause of the mistake – once the elections are over.
The Davidson County Election Commission reported FOX17 Nashville that 438 voters were impacted by the mistake and that officials have been working “endless hours” to check voters’ precincts and ensure they have the correct ballots for Tuesday’s election.
“Now, in the interest of doing that, some individuals might vote. In place of voting on voting machines, you’ll be offered a yellow ballot with your particular ballot inside.” Jeff Roberts, Nashville election administrator, said to the station.
Roberts indicated that officials will need to wait for Tuesday in order to determine how voters voted in the wrong districts.
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Since early voting began in Nashville, more than 200 votes have been cast in the wrong race. Voters who voted in the wrong districts can cast provisional ballots on Election Day.
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“We will then sit down and see what caused the issue to begin with, you know, ‘where did it originate?’ So that when we do re-districting again in 10 years, we don’t go through this issue, with the voters getting in the wrong, misassigned precinct,” Roberts said.
After The Associated Press first reported that nearly 200 Tennesseans had voted, election officials scrambled for days in an effort to rectify Davidson County’s system. voted in the incorrect congressional races, while 16 cast votes in a wrong state Senate race and six cast votes in a wrong state House race.
In the spring of this year, Republican lawmakers split up multiple precincts throughout Davidson County while redrawing Nashville’s congressional maps in hopes of flipping a Democratic seat.
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So, many voters live in dispersed precincts. Some have been wrongly identified. You were grouped in an incorrect district.The county said that no issues regarding ballots being cast for the wrong race were raised during August’s primary.
This report was compiled by the Associated Press.
