Tennessee State Senator Rosalind Kurita, running for re-election from the 22nd district, won her Democratic primary in August by only 19 votes. But on September 13, the state Democratic Party state executive committee tentatively ruled that she is not the party’s nominee, since she encouraged Republican-minded voters to vote for her in the party’s primary. On September 17, the final decision to exclude her as the Democratic nominee was made by a combined meeting of the Democratic county committees from Montgomery, Cheatham and Houston Counties (those three counties comprise the 22nd State Senate district).

On September 18, Senator Kurita said she may sue to regain the Democratic nomination. In the meantime, she filed as a write-in for the general election. If she does sue, the precedent will be important in the ongoing legal struggle over political party rights to control their own nominations process. Tennessee does not have registration by party.