NASHVILLE ELECTION OFFICE SENDS CANARY YELLOW CARDS AHEAD OF PRIMARY

Nashville voters who spot a bright canary-yellow card in their mailbox are getting more than a splash of color. It is the Davidson County Election Commission’s way of telling people exactly where to vote under Tennessee’s newly redrawn congressional map, ahead of the Aug. 6 primary, and of trying to avoid the ballot mix-ups that disrupted voting in 2022.

The Davidson County Election Commission says it has finished assigning every registered voter to the revised congressional districts and that new canary-yellow voter registration cards are now being printed and mailed, according to the Davidson County Election Commission. Administrator of Elections John D. Richardson told NewsChannel 5 that the office relied on geo-mapping and a detailed six-step process to check and recheck each voter's district assignment before the cards went out.

The caution is rooted in recent history. During the 2022 midterms, hundreds of Nashville voters were put in the wrong districts and given incorrect ballots during early voting, which led to provisional ballots and a legal settlement, according to The Associated Press. Local coverage later pegged the number of misassigned ballots at more than 200 and followed the lawsuit that followed the errors, per Tennessee Lookout.





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