I did the math. There are approx 570,000 voting age adults in Davidson County. 15% were purged.
That’s not registered voters. That’s people are old enough to vote. I think there are approx 440k registered voters which puts it up to about a 18% purged.
According to the Secretary of State’s data, in June of 2025 there were 18k inactive voters but the purged 66k inactive voters. Wtf.
How can you purge more inactive voters than the total number of inactive voters?
Source: TN SoS Stats
The South, land of the disenfranchised.
You know, this is not unfair.
Most of those purged were cut from the rolls in March, before anyone knew a special election was coming.
They were cut from the rolls after the Davidson County Election Commission sent letters to voters more than two years ago, that were returned as undeliverable.
People whose letters were returned were purged after they did not vote in two consecutive November elections.
“We don’t purge anyone 90 days before an election,” Roberts said.
He said people purged may have moved or died.
Roberts said if someone was purged, and they come to vote in the primary election they can re-register to vote for the general election, which is on December 2.
So I was under the impression that my voter registration in Texas was in good standing, as I’ve voted in every election for the past 6 years living at the same address. I received a letter from the county Voter Registrar saying that my registration was in question because my current residence is different from the one on my registration card. I have not moved, my address has not changed, and I renewed my DL using that same address 2 months prior. After angrily contacting them to find out WTF happened, I found out that they tried to mail my latest voter registration card and it came back as undeliverable. So through zero fault of my own I had to mail in a form by a 30 day deadline (at this point, less than 10 business days) to verify what they already knew. I will have to keep checking my status assuming that this can happen again, and if it’s too close to an election, I’m screwed.
And this is why the USPS cannot be allowed to be privatized. You know as soon as that happens they’ll start doing blatant partisan bullshit like not delivering reliably to certain areas just to get that sort of response.
I was checking my registration every few days leading up to the 2024 election, Texas as well. Luckily nothing happened but I know they pull shit like this.
I gave $5 to the TX GOP like 20 years ago and gave them my email address (I still get emails to this day as well as Republican mailers, but never Democrat ones). I feel like that’s slightly insulated me from their bullshit.
If the process in this Tennessee county is as described in the article, it’s not unfair. Playing fuck around with voter registrations that have no issues is something else entirely.
Or just codify the right to vote so it can’t be argued. Then make a list that says birthday, state, deathday. When you are born you are registered to vote automatically and it goes into effect at 18. The drop down for state can only be changed to another state and whomever changes it is liable for voter fraud if they cannot prove it was filed by the person by submitting a proof of residence change. Then the states have their own crap for primaries and junk if they want, but the right to vote federally is only decided by you being of age. Show up in the wrong state to vote federally, mark them as having voted, show up in another state to vote again, arrest for voter fraud, and conduct an investigation.
Codifying it would also force states to make similar laws, and hopefully abandon the whole party registration crap. Ballot with candidates, vote for one, or ranked choice… whatever the state wants, but you walk in and vote. Show up in wrong state with proof of residence, vote then and there, update state in database. Investigation if a voter partakes in 2 states votes.
There are many different voting districts, each one depending on where you live, and they overlap and don’t in all sorts of ways. It’s not just “what state do you live in”.
All of that is for the state. The federal government shouldn’t care at all about who’s voting in those. The states would have their database that puts the residents with their proper sheriff’s vote and mosquitoes commissioner. (Also just residence based)
The US federal government does not operate elections. States do, and they all do it a little differently. However, so far as I am aware, each state only requires you to register once, and applies all the different districts from your address. Even so, US House districts also depend on your address within a state; those are not statewide offices.
My man, you are not comprehending the words that I said. If you want to stand up and defend fascism by means that is your choice. But what was being talked about here were better options.
Let me ask you 1 question: do you believe the United States should enact the right to vote?
But that doesn’t allow for manipulation or discrimination!
Yep, clickbait headline for something that seems completely on the up and up.
Assuming the undeliverable mail was actually undeliverable, and not just marked that way without an attempt at all. Were additional delivery attempts made, or was it only one attempt? Are their voting records are accurate?
Do we really think USPS are any better than FedEx, UPS, Amazon, etc. which we know have delivery personnel mark delivery attempts wrong intentionally because they don’t want to bother?
You are making a lot of assumptions. I don’t think there is any evidence of some grand scheme against people getting their mail. I can say with relative certainty that I’ve never not gotten mail I was expecting from USPS. The others, sure, but they aren’t funded by the government. USPS doesn’t serve a profit goal. They seek to serve, and most mailpersons take their jobs pretty seriously. I don’t think it’s fair to disparage a group just to fit the pessimistic narrative you are trying to construct. Its a federal crime to tamper with the mail, including by the post office by marking it undeliverable. If they marked 80k undeliverable without any attempt, I think someone would notice. Besides, 80k were purged, many more were delivered and mark on the voter registry. I just don’t see anything to line up with the idea you are purposing.
Have you missed everything happening with leadership at the USPS since Trump’s first term?
Things like shutting down sorting centers, removing and destroying brand new mail sorting machines, which caused widely documented mail delivery delays, and loosening service standard measurements under Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. Who also notably was the first Postmaster General to have no experience at the USPS, being entirely from the private logistics sector. And now David Steiner, who was an executive at Waste Management until 2016, and has been a member of the Board at FedEx since 2009, again with no USPS experience.
The last two Postmasters have been implementing policies that have damaged the ability of the USPS to do their job, and tried to hide that by loosening the definitions of what “on time” means for deliveries so they can hit the now lowered threshold. Making it work just a bit worse little by little to justify privatizing it. The Republican’s favorite thing to do with public systems, privatizing profits.
I don’t disagree that DeJoy’s leadership has been problematic. The 2020 operational changes were concerning and rightly faced scrutiny. But those were high-level policy decisions that affected mail service broadly and were immediately detected and challenged. What you’re suggesting here is completely different: individual carriers across Davidson County fraudulently marking specific election mail as undeliverable. That would be a federal crime requiring coordination among many people, would leave obvious evidence, and doesn’t align with the documented issues under DeJoy’s leadership, which were about capacity reduction and service standards, not fraud. The fact that USPS leadership has made questionable decisions doesn’t mean we should assume fraud in every situation involving the mail. We need actual evidence for that specific claim.
A random letter carrier marking things delivered and stealing them has happened numerous times across the country for decades. A single carrier handles thousands of pieces of mail every day. Not sure why you think a few people simply being lazy and marking stuff undeliverable is particularly unlikely, or doing it on purpose if they have strong personal partisan beliefs and see it’s election related mail. Just because its illegal doesn’t stop people from doing it, look at the current administration and everyone in management positions.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investigations/postal-worker-mail-theft-stolen/3674589/
https://thehill.com/homenews/5066246-postal-workers-stealing-mail-inspector-general-report/
Obviously you are going to believe whatever you are going to believe. I’m not going to spend any more time making my argument. Have a good night.
And millions were purged in 2024. One of the republican party’s favorite tactics as of late.
“One county” and it’s the second most populated county in the state
