The Davidson County Election Commission will count the remaining provisional ballots in Tennessee’s 4th U.S. Congressional race at a Nov. 16 meeting, potentially allowing the outcome to be called in favor of a Democratic upstart.
After election night last week, Democrat Victoria Broderick led veteran Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DeJarlais by 285 votes in the 4th District.
Broderick has not officially been declared the winner because the multi-county congressional district still has about 700 provisional ballots to count. The district includes the eastern third of Nashville-Davidson County, Rutherford County and nine more rural counties in middle and east Tennessee…