Dolly Parton’s sister claims Tennessee voting machine flipped her vote to Republican

Stella Parton, the 77-year-old younger sister of the late Dolly Parton, says a voting machine in Tennessee kept switching her ballot to Republican Marsha Blackburn during early voting. In a Facebook post, she said it happened at the Hermitage Library outside Nashville and that she had to correct her selection three times. She urged others to check their ballots carefully and not to let anyone rig the election. The Independent reports it has asked the Tennessee State Election Commission for comment.

Blackburn faces Democrat Jerri Green, a Memphis City Council member, in the governor's race, and recent polling gives Blackburn a 12-point edge. Some of Parton's followers described similar trouble at that library and elsewhere in the state, with one blaming slow machines. In Williamson County, voter Jackie Herrud told WSMV that her choice of Green kept turning into Blackburn.

The Tennessee Secretary of State's office told WSMV that among roughly 400,000 people who have already voted, it has received just one complaint of votes being inadvertently flipped. It advised voters who spot a problem to alert a poll official before casting their ballot.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →