Anti-LGBTQ TN Mayoral Candidate Shut Down By City After Claiming That Voting Machines Are Malfunctioning

The Daily Beast reports:

Gabrielle Hanson, the Tennessee mayoral candidate who’s found herself embroiled in weekly controversy on the home stretch of her campaign, appeared to keep making blunders on Election Day—decrying that voting machines were malfunctioning on Tuesday despite an election official insisting otherwise. Hanson, who in the past month has been exposed as a Pride hypocrite and embracer of neo-Nazis, claimed on social media Tuesday morning that votes weren’t tabulating at some precincts in Franklin.

Initially, she told voters to take a photo of their ballots before submitting them—something that is illegal in Tennessee. If caught, offenders could be hit with a Class C misdemeanor and have their ballot nixed. Williamson County Election Administrator Chad Gray said Hanson had it all wrong—possibly because she skipped out on a tutorial she was invited to that explained how Franklin’s new voting machines work.

Read the full article. Polls close at 7PM.



 

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