Tennessee’s AG is taking lead in the elections case involving Davidson County precinct mixup

The Davidson County Elections commission is getting sued over a voting mix-up involving several precincts. The Attorney General’s office will be handling the case on behalf of Metro.

This court case comes after more than 400 voters were given ballots for the wrong district for the November election.

Elections Administrator Jeff Roberts told Davidson County commissioners on Monday that the mistake occurred during early voting and did not impact voters on election day. 

“From the [Oct.] 19th up until the first [of November], we had a group and those were given a ballot that was not consistent with the district that they should’ve been in,” said Roberts. “And then after we made some changes, we then had a few more that voted between Nov. 2 and the 5th that fell into that same category.”

Those people were given a chance to vote again. However, those votes were only going to be counted if there was a close race or a recount, neither of which occurred.

Going forward, Roberts said he will be working with the state to see how the mistake took place.