NASHVILLE – In her contest to Weston Wamp’s victory in Hamilton County’s May 3 Republican mayoral primary election, second-place finisher Sabrena Smedley wants the Tennessee Republican Party’s State Executive Committee to set aside the results, citing what she says is crossover voting by Democrats as well as failures by the county election commission and the local party to adequately police the election.
Her contention is that Democrats crossed over and voted for Wamp.
Among other things, Smedley says there was no mechanism in place to vet “bona fide” or good faith Republican voters either by the Hamilton County Election Commission or the county’s Republican Party.
She said no database of Republican voter data was sought by the local party nor supplied by the state party so voter histories could be vetted in the event of a voter’s legitimacy as a party member being challenged.
Another criticism made by Smedley was county precincts did not post a copy of Tennessee Code Annotated 2-7-15(b).