Thu
Oct 22 2026
05:37 am
Check and Recheck your ballot when voting
By: bizgrrl

There have been a few instances in Middle Tennessee where people have tried to vote for a certain candidate but the voting machine shows they selected a different candidate.

Even Stella Parton reports a problem with voting, “In Tennessee last week at the Hermitage Library where I voted, I had to go back three times and correct my vote because it kept defaulting to Marsha Blackburn,” Stella wrote on Facebook."

When we were voting in Blount County there was one voting volunteer that kept hurrying people along when they were getting ready to turn over the voting slip. You should take the time to review the voting slip to ensure the candidates you voted for are the candidates listed on your voting slip.

Be aware. Take your time. Don't let anyone hurry you along. Report any problems you encounter.

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Midori Barstow's picture

"You should take the time to

Submitted by Midori Barstow on Thu, 2026/10/22 - 12:07pm.

"You should take the time to review the voting slip to ensure the candidates you voted for are the candidates listed on your voting slip."

I am confused
What is the voting slip? Does the Hermitage Library employ a-
dial/vote machine or what?

Here, I place my filled ballot into the ballot scanner and
that's that---no confirmation or voting slip to review

bizgrrl's picture

Yor filled ballot would be

Submitted by bizgrrl on Thu, 2026/10/22 - 12:41pm.
(in reply to Midori Barstow)

Yor filled ballot would be your voting slip.

Midori Barstow's picture

Thanks, now I get it (my

Submitted by Midori Barstow on Thu, 2026/10/22 - 1:35pm.
(in reply to bizgrrl)

Thanks, now I get it (my processing is slow these days)

wrt to the other voting incidents,
my good friend who is Pres of LWV/Chattanooga informed:

I did see a report from WSM out of Nashville.
Mark Goins is the Administrator of elections for the state
and he says the changes (if they really occurred) were the result of the voters inadvertently touching the wrong box on the voting machine.

In Davidson and Williamson Counties touch screens are used to generate a paper ballot which is then scanned into a machine that counts the vote.
So the "slip" referred to is the paper ballot generated by the touch screen.

I guess Knox and Hamilton Counties are more low tech, letting us mark our own paper ballots and then scanning those.
Seems like a preferable system but I've seen folk screw up even with the self marked system.

I've emailed the state League president to get her take on this. She lives in Davidson County.

bizgrrl's picture

I wondered if there could be

Submitted by bizgrrl on Thu, 2026/10/22 - 5:20pm.
(in reply to Midori Barstow)

I wondered if there could be different machines in different counties. One might have less human error rate than the other?

R. Neal's picture

In Blount County, you make

Submitted by R. Neal on Thu, 2026/10/22 - 6:23pm.
(in reply to Midori Barstow)

In Blount County, you make your selections on a touch screen. When you're done voting, it prints out a completed ballot on paper. You then take the printed paper ballot to another machine that scans it and deposits it in a ballot box.

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