Early Voting Is Open. Here's What We've Been Doing.
Updated: 6 days ago
Update, November 7: Election Day was November 3 and early voting has ended. We are leaving this post as it ran. The forum report is on the Candidate Forum page.
Early voting for the November 3 election opened on October 14 and runs through October 29. You can vote at any early voting site in Davidson County, and one of them is Casa Azafrán at 2195 Nolensville Pike. Bring a photo ID issued by the federal government or the State of Tennessee — it can be expired. If you want a mail ballot, Davidson County has to receive your request by October 24.
That page has every early voting site with its hours, your full November 3 ballot by race, and plain summaries of the three constitutional amendments. We don't endorse anyone, and we're not affiliated with any party or campaign.
Ten candidates came to Glencliff High School
On September 26 we hosted a free dinner and forum in the Glencliff High School cafeteria. Ten candidates came. We had invited forty-two — every candidate on the District 16 ballot got the same invitation on the same terms, and we kept a written log of every invitation and every reply.
Over sixty neighbors turned out. The League of Women Voters of Tennessee helped people register and look up their ballots, Metro Water Services told neighbors about its free street tree program, and The Nashville Food Project made the meal. Debby Gould opened the program and Jim Shulman moderated.
It started with the neighbors rather than the candidates — tables talking through what matters most to them before anyone got a microphone. What came back: natural resources and the environment, public safety and traffic, property taxes, homelessness, police response times, keeping small businesses open, toll lanes and development.
The evening closed with two questions for every candidate. Would you come back to this community? Will you listen, not just talk? Every one of them said yes to both.
Here is the part worth sitting with. Fewer than 2,000 residents voted in each of the last three August council elections. The 2023 race was decided by 96 votes. In 2019 the top two finishers were 76 votes apart. In District 16, the margin is small enough that you can see yourself in it.
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