This year, Tennessee is electing all members of its legislature. In the 93rd State House district, no one is on the general election ballot. No one had petitioned to run in either the Democratic nor Republican primary except the incumbent, G. A. Hardaway, a Democrat. He needed 25 valid signatures. He submitted 47, but only 24 were valid. This was discovered on March 17, and the deadline for anyone to run as an independent had already passed, on March 10.
Tennessee permits write-ins in primaries, but no one can be nominated unless his or her write-in total is 5% of the number of voters who cast a ballot. Probably Representative Hardaway could have surmounted that barrier, but on April 23 he died. No one filed as a declared write-in candidate in either major party primary, so by then it was impossible for anyone to be on the November ballot.
Fortunately, the deadline to be a declared write-in in the general election was not until September 14, and there is one Democrat who filed to be a write-in candidate, Kyler Gilkey. The 93rd district is in Memphis.
A D. Frank Robinson election!
So basically, all the parties and politicians, and a supermajority of all voters, are all retarded?
Average Confused Retard:
Basically correct. Trump is the very rare exception.
The voters and politicians aren’t retards. They largely all do what’s in their perceived self interest or perceived public benefit. The system they operate in is fundamentally and fatally flawed, by design, so about 6,000 globalist elitists who worship Lucifer can rule the world from the shadows while average people are deluded into believing they have a real say and manipulated into bad choices.
Trump alone can save us.
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G.A. Hardaway, the incumbent who died had served in the House for close to decades. His son, T.J. Hardaway was appointed to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the current term.
T.J. Hardaway had initially planned to run in the August primary as a write-in candidate, but winning the primary as a write-in candidate not only requires getting the most votes, but receiving at least 5% of the number of registered voters in the district. In a contested write-in election, there is a risk of a divided vote preventing the winner qualifying. Two other candidates filed as write-in candidates. Britney Thornton who is finishing her term on the Shelby County Board of Commissioners had run in a March primary for Shelby County Clerk and finished second in the Democratic primary, and decided to run for the open seat. Lashanta Rudd who had won the Democratic nomination for Thornton’s commissioner seat also had filed as a write-in candidate for the House seat. Rudd was also on the August ballot as the unopposed candidate for the county commission (the general election for local elections AND the primary election for state elections are both on the August ballot).
The Democratic party bosses apparently did not appreciate candidates just going off and running without their approval and convinced T.J. Hardaway and Rudd to withdraw as write-in candidates in the primary. Hardaway announced that he was going to run as a write-in the general election, which does not require meeting a threshold.
Thornton needed 1787 write-in votes in the primary to qualify as the Democratic nominee (5% of 35,723 registered voters equals 1787). She received 614. There were also 382 untabulated write-in votes. I don’t know if there was actual opposition, or just lack of support. I did see a social media post that said Thornton was running with the Republicans. That might be as reliable as a post on BAN assuring us that George Washington was a commie. There were contested primaries for governor, US Senate, and US representative. Unless you can get volunteers at every polling place and contact mail voters you are going to have trouble getting enough votes.
T.J. Hardaway announced that he had decided not to run as a write-in candidate in the general election because he was going to law school. Kyler Gilkey who lost in the August primary for another House seat is now running as write-in candidate in House District 93. It appears that in Tennessee, representatives only need to live in the county, and not the specific district.
Here’s yet another illustration of why felons, and especially murderers, should always get the death penalty, and commie demon rats should never, ever be elected to anything:
https://notthebee.com/article/virginia-criminals-are-ten-times-more-likely-to-get-parole-under-spanbergers-new-state-board
“Imagine being the sister of a woman brutally stabbed to death in front of her newborn baby and begging a parole board to keep her killer locked up – then hearing them tell the killer “I APPLAUD YOU” and watching in horror as they set him free.
Demon rat governors continue to show the country what happens when you put the absolute worst people in charge.”
Virginia criminals are “ten times more likely to get parole” under Spanberger’s new state board…