#Tre Hargett

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Secretary Hargett encourages Tennesseans to register to vote as part of National Voter Registration Day

Secretary Hargett encourages Tennesseans to register to vote as part of National Voter Registration Day...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As National Voter Registration Day approaches, Secretary of State Tre Hargett is encouraging all eligible Tennesseans to register to vote. “It has never been easier to register or cast a ballot in Tennessee,” said Secretary Hargett. “If you have not already registered, National Voter Registration Day is a great opportunity to do so.” National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday,…

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(NaturalNews) Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett has asked thousands of voters to provide proof of citizenship ahead of the November elections, a move that...

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On Tuesday, a Tennessee House panel rejected a push regarding the removal of a judge for expanding absentee voting in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, siding with prominent attorneys who warned the ouster would be an unprecedented breach of judicial independence.

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what a bunch of heartless ass clowns!

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Tre Hargett biography: 13 things about politician born in Ripley, Tennessee

Tre Hargett biography: 13 things about politician born in Ripley, Tennessee

Gus Lusk “Tre” Hargett III is a politician from Tennessee, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

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Tre Hargett: Secretary of State arrested for DUI after leaving Bonnaroo festival

Tre Hargett: Secretary of State arrested for DUI after leaving Bonnaroo festival

“On Friday night after leaving the Bonnaroo Music Festival, I was stopped by the Tullahoma Police Department and subsequently arrested for DUI,” Hargett said in an emailed statement to CNN. “Driving Under the Influence is a serious matter, and I regret the circumstances that led to my arrest. I respect law enforcement and will trust the legal process as we move forward.” Hargett, 53, was first…

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Voters Reminded to Utilize Election Day Hotline for Questions and Text to Report Fraud or Other Issues

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and the Division of Elections remind all registered voters casting ballots of two resources available to have questions answered or concerns addressed by election experts. Voters can call the Election Day Hotline at 1-877-850-4959 with questions or text “TN” to 45995 to report fraud or other election-related issues. Tennessee remains number one in election…

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Based on my cursory research, not all states have ballot drop boxes. According to this NPR article, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said that “his state doesn't allow drop boxes for fear voters might be pressured to vote a certain way.” I couldn’t find any info on drop boxes in my state of West Virginia, but absentee ballots in WV can be dropped off at the county clerk’s office (each person can only drop off one ballot, and you have to do it while the office is open). Regardless, the post office is not the only way to deliver absentee ballots. Check your local rules, stay updated, and vote safely!

OK So with the shit with the USPS going on:

1. Check your Voter registration to make sure everything is up to date.  If you can, request a Mail-In Ballot.  I live in CO, where all elections are Mail-In only now, so I get one anyway.

2. Fill out your ballot per the instructions on your Ballot.  Some Notes:

Read Instructions thoroughly, and fill out your Ballot in private.

Do NOT post pictures of your Ballot as this may invalidate it.  DO Post pictures of your “I Voted” sticker.

Make sure to vote for all the offices up for election- as important as the presidential election is, your mayor, governer, local school board and sherrif have a MUCH bigger impact on your immediate safety and quality of life.  Google your candidates, look up the Leauge of Women Voter’s Guides for a reliably Impartial rundown of your local candidates. 

Remember also that it is better to have someone in office that is only moderately incompotent, than it is to have someone that actively wants you dead.  It is the first step to having someone worthwhile next time.

If you wanted a third party option, your local elections are the best place to do this- my own city council has several Green Party members and it got me city-sponsored single-stream recycling! Its also moving the state legislature significantly farther left.

3. INSTEAD OF MAILING IT- LOOK UP WHERE YOUR BALLOT DROP-OFF LOCATIONS ARE. 

They’re boxes you drive or walk or bus or bike or whatever up to and drop your ballot in, and the elections officials will have it that evening. Pros of Ballot Drop-Off:

Can be turned in the same day you reccive your ballot, if you want to get this over with ASAP

Open 24/7, so you can drop it off whenever

Absolutely guaranteed to get your vote counted, regardless of what Donald does with the Post Office.

No waiting in line

No exposing yourself to the coronavirus

Most cities will have several ballot Drop-Off locations, at places like the grocery store, the county courthouse, city hall, at high schools etc.  Google your town or county name and “Ballot Drop Off Locations” and it’ll give you directions even.

Absolutely Save the USPS, but this is the BEST way to make sure your vote gets counted this

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Tennessee judge denies request seeking absentee ballot info | National News

Election official Deborah Agnew works at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center during the last day of early voting for the 2020 presidential election in Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020.

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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Democratic officials improperly filed a public records request while seeking last-minute information on voters who have requested an absentee ballot but haven’t returned them yet, a Tennessee judge ruled Monday.

Tennessee’s Democratic Party and the campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw had filed a lawsuit over the weekend accusing state election officials of refusing to release the ballot information as required by state law.

However, Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal in her eight-page ruling found that there was not enough evidence that Democratic officials sent a proper public records requests to the state’s elections office — where Secretary of State Tre Hargett, a Republican, and elections coordinator Mark Goins were named as defendants.

Furthermore, Moskal ruled that the state likely didn’t have the information the Democrats sought.

“There is nothing in the record to demonstrate that the specific voter information requested — regarding absentee voters’ requests for ballots who have not yet submitted their ballots — is compiled by county election commissions and transmitted to the (state’s) Division of Elections,” the judge wrote.

According to lawsuit, the Democrats had alleged that the Secretary of State’s office instructed all 95 county election offices withhold information about voters who have not returned absentee ballots by the end of early voting — which ended last week.

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@wilwheaton​, an important update/correction to a post from earlier.

In Tennessee, you cannot drop off your ballot. Why? Because “Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said his state does not allow drop boxes for fear voters may feel pressured by peers to vote a certain way.” https://wtop.com/presidential-election/2020/08/how-to-safely-return-your-absentee-ballot-without-usps/

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They read as follows:

“For people who feel unsafe about voting in person but now fear the USPS will be unable to deliver a “mail-in” ballot in a timely fashion.

There is a way around it:

1. Request a mail-in ballot.

2. Do not mail it.

3. Google your supervisor of elections to see where you can drop off your mail-in ballot. Its usually NOT THE POLLING PLACE. All states allow this!

Here is what you're accomplishing by doing this:

1. Your ballot gets in on time no matter what happens to the USPS.

2. You don't have to worry about standing in long lines and risking infection. You're just stopping by to drop it off.”

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i’m certain that i’m not the only one who’s made a post about this information, but i wanted to share this anyways, for anyone who doesn’t know this!

ALSO— double check that you’re registered to vote!!!!!

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More than 100,000 cast absentee ballots in Tennessee primary Tennessee officials say that a record number of voters submitted absentee ballots for the state's primary elections on Thursday. Tennessee officials say that a record number of voters submitted absentee ballots for the state's primary elections on Thursday.Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett's (R) office ...

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Nearly 44,000 Tennessee Students Vote in Mock Election

This year, 43,744 students from 168 schools across Tennessee cast votes for President and U.S. Senate as part of the Tennessee Secretary of State’s 2024 Student Mock Election. “Through their participation, these future leaders experienced how registered Tennessee voters select their elected officials,” said Secretary of State Tre Hargett. “We are excited about the enthusiasm we saw from this…

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Newest Front on the Vote-By-Mail Legal Fight: Drop Boxes

Consider the modest drop box.

In the not-too-distant past, we were more likely to take drop boxes for granted in our lives. We paid regular visits to Blockbuster to drop off the movie videos we'd rented for the weekend. We made more trips to library book-return boxes in those days before we had access to e-books.

We also dropped far fewer letters and documents into U.S. Postal Service collection boxes. This trend, of course, has been going on for years and has prompted the USPS to reduce the number of these collection points as a result.

Although many of us have been generally aware that there are fewer mailboxes now, the decline didn't become a political flashpoint until recently.

The Vote-by-Mail Controversy

With the spread of the coronavirus, there's been a broad move to expand vote-by-mail options so that people don't have to risk their health by voting in traditional polling sites. 

President Trump, however, is a vehement opponent of voting by mail because he believes that it favors Democrats and hurts Republicans. In June, he appointed one of his strongest supporters and fundraisers, Louis DeJoy, to be the new postmaster general. So the following month when DeJoy announced a series of cost-cutting measures including the continued removal of mailboxes, resulting in slower delivery times, the timing seemed ominous.

Many states had already instituted liberalized vote-by-mail procedures for primary elections, and some experienced difficulties connected to the handling of the mail itself. In Wisconsin, for instance, thousands of people who requested ballots by the deadline never received them and thousands of mailed ballots were postmarked too late to count.

This might be enough to prompt clear-thinking people to consider ways to improve vote-by-mail and see a much greater role for drop boxes ? in this case, ballot drop boxes. But that was before the even greater urgency that arose on Aug. 14. That's when the news broke that the Postal Service had notified 46 states that it couldn't guarantee that all mailed votes cast for the Nov. 3 general election would arrive in time to be counted.

The result has been a furor, fueled in large part by suspicions that the cost-cutting moves (such as more collection-box removals) by DeJoy are part of a nefarious plan by his friend President Donald Trump to further gum up mail voting.

The outcry was sufficiently strong to prompt the USPS to pledge that it would halt its planned mailbox removals until after the election. Still, while Trump lacks the unilateral power to defund the USPS, he has made it clear that he will pursue every avenue to kneecap mail voting.

The Argument for Drop Boxes

So, there is strong motivation for supporters of vote-by-mail to do all they can to get all mailed ballots properly counted in November.

Therefore, the modest drop box is looming large in many people's thinking.

The recent USPS letter to the states recommended that no matter what the states' rules are, they should inform voters to get their ballots in the mail by Oct. 27, one week prior to the election.

But what if even that isn't enough? Why not do everything to eliminate reliance on the Postal Service to get ballots to the election offices on time?

Why not install lots of drop boxes?

After all, that's what the states that have instituted universal mail balloting have done. Colorado, which switched to universal vote-by-mail in 2013, has made heavy use of drop boxes since the beginning and has found no problems. Colorado law, incidentally, requires that the boxes be kept under 24-hour video surveillance in adequate lighting and that they be emptied at least every 24 hours by election judges.

By early August, most states where vote-by-mail is allowed (34 of them plus the District of Columbia) had begun installing drop boxes. Many of them are located next to polling sites, while others are placed to maximize access to voters.

There are companies that specialize in the manufacture of drop boxes, and they claim they are secure. Election officials say these sites will be closely monitored.

But the opponents of vote-by-mail ? and, by extension, drop boxes ? differ. In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have filed suit to halt use of drop boxes on the grounds that the state hadn't properly monitored the boxes to make sure they are not vulnerable to fraud.

On Aug. 12, Ohio's Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, announced that he would not allow any county to offer more than one drop box. With about 6 million eligible voters in Ohio's 88 counties, that comes out to one drop box for every 68,000 people, far more than the 15,000 to 20,000 recommend by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

In Tennessee, Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett said his state doesn't allow drop boxes for ballots due to concerns that people won't necessarily be submitting their own ballots as they would in a polling place. People could offer to pick up ballots for voters and simply dispose of them, he suggested.

Congress Seeks Answers

Drop boxes, of course, are just one piece in the larger response to how the country intends to operate a fair election while keeping everyone safe during a pandemic. Much will depend on having the Postal Service operating at peak efficiency throughout the election season. To that end, the House Oversight Committee has scheduled a hearing for Aug. 24 and has invited DeJoy and USPS Board of Governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan to testify.

Meanwhile, Trump was back on the warpath on the morning of Aug. 17, this time focusing his ire directly at drop boxes.

?Some states use 'drop boxes' for the collection of Universal Mail-In Ballots," he tweeted. ?So who is going to 'collect' the Ballots, and what might be done to them prior to tabulation? A Rigged Election? So bad for our Country. Only Absentee Ballots acceptable!"

The answer to Trump's question: The ballots are collected by the same election officials who collect ballots at polling places.

Chances are, that won't mollify him. And chances are, we're going to hear a lot more about vote-by-mail, the U.S. Postal Service, and, yes, the modest drop box from now until Nov. 3 and beyond.

Related Resources:

Voting by Mail Pros and Cons (FindLaw's Learn About the Law)

What Are Absentee Ballots and How Do They Work? (FindLaw's Learn About the Law)

Can the General Election Be Postponed? (FindLaw's Law and Daily Life)

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Secretary of State Tre Hargett Encourages Voters to Prepare Now to Vote in November Election

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Daybreak revealed a landscape littered with blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines and huge broken trees, leaving city streets in gridlock. Schools, courts, transit lines, an airport and the state Capitol were closed, and some damaged polling stations had to be moved only hours before Super Tuesday voting began.

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The death toll jumped to 19 on Tuesday, Tennessee Emergency Management Spokeswoman Maggie Hannan said, after police and fire crews spent hours pulling survivors and bodies from wrecked buildings.

“Last night was a reminder about how fragile life is,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper said at a Tuesday morning news conference.

Residents of the historic Germantown neighborhood walked around in dismay as emergency crews closed off roads. Roofs had been torn off apartment buildings, large trees uprooted and debris littered many sidewalks. Walls were toppled, exposing living rooms and kitchens in damaged homes. Mangled power lines and broken trees came to rest on cars, streets and piles of rubble.

“It is heartbreaking. We have had loss of life all across the state,” said Gov. Bill Lee. He ordered all non-essential state workers to stay home before going up in a helicopter to survey the damage.

The tornadoes were spawned by a line of severe storms with a line of storms that stretched from near Montgomery, Alabama, into western Pennsylvania.

In Nashville, it tore through areas transformed by a recent building boom. Germantown and East Nashville are two of the city’s trendiest neighborhoods, with restaurants, music venues, high-end apartment complexes and rising home prices threatening to drive out long-time residents.

“The dogs started barking before the sirens went off, they knew what was coming,” said Paula Wade, of East Nashville. “Then we heard the roar … Something made me just sit straight up in bed, and something came through the window right above my head. If I hadn’t moved, I would’ve gotten a face full of glass.”

Then she looked across the street at the East End United Methodist Church and said the damage broke her heart.“It’s this beautiful Richardson Romanesque church; the bell tower is gone, the triptych widow of Jesus the Good Shepherd that they just restored and put back up a few weeks ago is gone,” she said.

Wade immediately recalled how her own church down the street — St. Ann’s Episcopal — was severely damaged by a tornado in 1998.

“I had no idea that I still had some PTSD from that other experience so long ago, but the sound of the sirens, that low sound, there’s just nothing like it. To look out and see the church, its just heartbreaking. It brings out everything that happened to St. Ann’s.”One tornado touched down near downtown reportedly stayed on the ground for about 10 miles (16 kilometers), into Nashville’s eastern suburbs, following a path parallel to Interstate 40 and causing more damage in Mt. Juliet, Lebanon, Hermitage and other communities.

“Our community has been impacted significantly,” the Mt. Juliet Police Department tweeted. Homes were damaged and injuries were reported, the department said. ”We continue to search for injured. Stay home if you can.”Videos posted online showed what appeared to be a well-defined tornado moving quickly across the Nashville area, flashing with lightning as it ripped open living rooms and exposed kitchens to the elements. Metro Nashville police said crews were responding to about 40 building collapses.

Among them was a popular music venue that had just held an election rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The crowd left shortly before the twister struck the Basement East Nashville, the Tennessean reported.The disaster affected voting in Tennessee, one of 14 Super Tuesday states. Some polling sites in Nashville were moved, and sites across Davidson and county and Wilson counties were opening an hour late but still closing at the same time, Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced.

A reported gas leak forced an evacuation of the IMT building in Germantown, according to WSMV-TV. Dozens of people, suddenly homeless, were seen carrying their belongings through garbage-strewn streets after the tornado blew through.

Nashville Electric tweeted that four of its substations were damaged in the tornado. Power outages were affecting more than 44,000 customers early Tuesday, the utility company said.

The governor’s spokeswoman, Gillum Ferguson, said hundreds of people went to a Red Cross shelter for displaced residents at the Nashville Farmers Market, just north of the state capitol, but a power outage there forced people to move again to the Centennial Sportsplex.

The outage also extended to the Capitol, forcing the cancellation of legislative meetings.

Several airplane hangars were destroyed and power lines were downed at John C. Tune Airport, Nashville International’s sister airport in West Nashville, where spokeswoman Kym Gerlock urged people to stay away until further notice.

Metro Nashville Public Schools said its schools would be closed Tuesday because of the tornado damage. Wilson County, just east of metro Nashville will close schools for the rest of the week.

The storm system left just scattered rain in its wake as it moved eastward. Strong cells capable of causing damage were spotted in central Alabama, eastern Tennessee and the western Carolinas.

Early morning storms also damaged homes and toppled trees in rural central Alabama, where the National Weather Service reported winds up to 60 mph (97 kmh) and issued tornado warnings for at least five counties.

In rural Bibb County southwest of Birmingham, seven poll workers were getting ready to open the doors to Super Tuesday voters at the Lawley Senior Activity Center when cellphone alerts began sounding a tornado warning about 6:45 a.m., said volunteer Gwen Thompson.

“Our children were calling too, telling us, ‘Get in the bathroom!’” she said. “We all got in the bathroom and we’re OK, but lots of trees are down.” The storm knocked out electricity, Thompson said, but the precinct’s two electronic voting machines had battery backups and people were casting ballots shortly thereafter.

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Preds, Secretary of State Partner to Increase Voter Engagement

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Preds, Secretary of State Partner to Increase Voter Engagement

Preds, Secretary of State Partner to Increase Voter Engagement Nashville, Tenn. (January 27, 2020) – Today, Nashville Predators President & CEO Sean Henry and Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced their partnership for the Your Vote Maters voter registration and voter participation campaign. “In Smashville, we always encourage our fans to make their voices heard. Whether by cheering on the … News story posted on 2020-01-27T23:31:00.0000000Z