田纳西州一个州立法选区在11月的选票上将没有候选人，这意味着无论谁获胜，都必须进行补选活动——而目前还不清楚这个人会是谁。
A Tennessee state legislative district will have no candidates on the ballot in November, ensuring whoever wins will have to carry out a write-in campaign — and it's unclear who that might be.
此前代表该选区的民主党议员G.A.哈达威于4月去世。但即使他活着，最终也确定他没有提交足够的选票签名以符合8月初选的资格，仅差一个签名达到所需的25个。
G.A. Hardaway, the Democratic lawmaker who had previously represented the district, died in April. But even if he had lived, it was eventually determined that he didn't submit enough ballot signatures to qualify for the August primary, coming up just one short of the required 25.
据孟菲斯当地报纸《商业呼吁报》报道，谢尔比县委员会任命哈达威的儿子T.J.哈达威担任该席位。小哈达威曾计划发起补选活动，但在本月早些时候暂停了这些努力。选票准入问题在全国多个州引发了令人惊讶的问题。
According to The Commercial Appeal, the local paper in Memphis, the Shelby County Commission appointed Hardaway's son, T.J. Hardaway, to serve in the seat. The younger Hardaway was planning to launch a write-in campaign, but suspended those efforts earlier this month. Ballot access snafus have caused surprising issues around the country in multiple states.
4月，新墨西哥州共和党州众议员丽贝卡·道因提交提名请愿书的方式被法官裁定未能充分给选民审查或撤回其姓名的机会而被取消选票资格，这可能导致该选区没有候选人，尽管州最高法院最终推翻了这一决定，让她重新回到选票上。
In April, New Mexico GOP state Rep. Rebecca Dow was booted from the ballot after a judge determined the way she submitted her nominating petitions did not adequately give voters a chance to review or withdraw their names, which would have potentially left that district with no candidate, although the state Supreme Court ultimately reversed this decision and let her back on the ballot.
然后在6月，佛罗里达州民主党事实上赢得了一个共和党持有的席位，因为众议员宝拉·斯塔克未能按时提交竞选财务披露，导致她失去选票资格，只剩下民主党人获准参选。
Then in June, Democrats de facto won a Republican-held seat in Florida after Rep. Paula Stark failed to file her campaign finance disclosures on time, disqualifying her from the ballot and leaving only Democrats cleared to run.