Voting in Nashville these midterm elections Nashville

Voting in Nashville these midterm elections Nashville

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Midterm elections 2022 Voting in Nashville

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Election Day is Nov. 8. Early voting takes place Oct. 19-Nov. 3.In Nashville, polls at the Howard Office Building downtown.Voting will expand to additional locations next week. Why it matters: The election will determine who will be the next governor and who represents Nashville in Congress.The ballot also includes several state legislative races and four proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution. State of play: Many of the high-profile races favor Republicans. Zoom in: Tennessee Republicans this year, slicing up Nashville's reliably Democratic district.The city is now split into Districts 5, 6 and 7, each of which includes rural counties with large conservative voting blocs. Jason Martin (left) and Gov. Bill Lee. Photos: Mark Humphrey/AP Photo, Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Governor Gov Bill Lee R vs Jason Martin D
Gov. Bill Lee, whose approval rating sat at 56% in the , is conducting a quiet re-election campaign. his work to bolster rural counties and keep unemployment low.Democratic challenger , a critical care physician, emerged as a vocal critic of Lee's pandemic response. In the run-up to Election Day, Martin has criticized Lee's positions on banning abortion and promoting charter schools.Lee has .
TN-5 Andy Ogles R vs Heidi Campbell D
the Nashville area district held by and the Democratic Party since the Civil War. Cooper retired after the new maps were approved.Facing off in the newly drawn district are Democratic state Sen. Heidi Campbell and her Republican rival, Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles.The district includes heavily GOP suburban and rural counties, making Ogles the perceived front-runner. However, Campbell outraised Ogles in the most recent fundraising period.
TN-7 Rep Mark Green R vs Odessa Kelly D
This newly redrawn district represents the northwest portion of Davidson County and touches the state borders on the north and south. Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Green is facing Democratic challenger Odessa Kelly.Kelly's progressive campaign pushing for affordable housing and Medicare expansion has attracted . If elected, the first openly gay Black congresswoman.Green, a two-term representative, is a staunch conservative who previously served in the General Assembly. He that immigration and inflation are two of his top issues if he is re-elected.
State House District 59 Caleb Hemmer D vs Michelle Foreman R
First-time candidate Caleb Hemmer is looking to keep the district representing parts of south and western Davidson County a Democratic seat. Hemmer works in corporate development and is the brother-in-law of state Rep. Bo Mitchell.His Republican opponent is conservative activist Michelle Foreman, who was a defendant in a recent legal settlement over unsolicited robocalls during the 2020 effort to recall Mayor John Cooper.
Constitutional amendments on Tennessee' s ballot
Voters will decide whether to approve to the state constitution:Amendment 1 would enshrine the state's "right-to-work" law , allowing employees to decide against joining a union and paying dues in a unionized workplace.Amendment 2 would clarify the if the governor is incapacitated.Amendment 3 would in the state, eliminating an exception "as a punishment for crime." Supporters of the amendment say it would be an important symbolic move.Amendment 4 would lift a ban on clergy serving in the General Assembly. (This provision of the state Constitution since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional in 1978.)
Ballot snafu affects 400 Tennessee voters
Early voters in Davidson County who were will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot in the correct races Nov. 8.Officials announced plans to allow misassigned voters to cast new ballots Friday as part of a deal reached in a lawsuit from the ACLU of Tennessee and the League of Women Voters. Zoom in: The Davidson County Election Commission who were eligible to cast a provisional ballot.That amount has grown from the original number of faulty ballots reported by election officials . How it works: If your name is on the list, you must go to the election commission office at on Election Day to get a corrected provisional ballot. Those ballots would only include races affected by the mixup.The provisional ballots will only be counted if the affected races are contested after the election. State of play: Nashville law director Wally Dietz told reporters that election officials have identified others who haven't voted yet who might still get a faulty ballot because of ongoing problems with mapping software.Those individuals will get special paper ballots with the correct races when they arrive at their polling places Nov. 8. Context: Some Nashville that included races for the wrong congressional and statehouse districts.Jeff Roberts, the Davidson County election administrator, that the county's mapping software misclassified some homes on the edges of the district boundaries.District lines were redrawn earlier this year during the redistricting process, splitting multiple precincts.
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