NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Metro Nashville Councilman Jordan Huffman is calling for the removal of what he calls a “rogue Election Official.”
According to an open letter posted to social media, the Metro District 14 councilman detailed experienced multiple negative interactions with a poll worker both during the Aug. 1 primary election and the Nov. 5 general election. He added a constituent reached out to him about an issue with the same worker on Election Day, Nov. 5.
According to Huffman, the worker approached him and another candidate standing outside the required 100-foot electioneering boundary at the Hermitage Community Center polling location threatening to have the pair arrested for where they were standing on Aug. 1.
Huffman said the “threat and tone used was unbecoming of the standard set by other poll workers” in the county.
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The same worker then reportedly approached Huffman again on Nov. 5 while the councilman was in line to vote with his wife and son. Huffman said the worker “asked in a condescending/threatening tone if I remembered him,” referring to the Aug. 1 incident.