Tennessee Has a State Legislative Election with No Names on Ballot

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.


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Tennessee Has a State Legislative Election with No Names on Ballot — 4 Comments

  1. So basically, all the parties and politicians, and a supermajority of all voters, are all retarded?

  2. 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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