General Election November 3, 2026 Voter Guide
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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
WCDP Recommends Voting for all Democratic Candidates
US Senate:
Marquita Bradshaw
US House:
District 5: Chaz Molder
District 9: Justin J Pearson
TN Governor:
Jerri Green
TN Senate D 27:
David Hardy
TN State House
Becca Ripley, D 61
Dr. Laura Andreson, D 63
Julian Pierre-Griffin, D 65
Teri Mai, D 92
Tennessee Constitutional Amendments
WCDP Recommends voting NO on all 3.
Reasons for Voting No
Amendment 1 (Bail): NO. Right now, Tennessee's Constitution guarantees bail to everyone except people charged with capital offenses. This amendment would let judges deny bail entirely for 73 more felonies. Those 73 offenses won't be listed on your ballot, so you would be voting on a list you can't see. Judges can already set high bail and strict conditions for dangerous defendants. What this changes is that more people who haven't been convicted of anything could be jailed for months before trial. That runs counter to the presumption of innocence. It would also be applied unevenly from county to county. And the cost of the extra jail space falls on counties and local taxpayers, not the state.
Amendment 2 (State Property Tax Ban): NO. Tennessee hasn't had a state property tax in more than 75 years, and nobody in the legislature is proposing one. This amendment solves a problem that doesn't exist. It's politically motivated and doesn’t need to be written into our Constitution. Metro Nashville and the county set your property taxes, not the General Assembly, and this amendment does nothing to lower them. Our Constitution should be reserved for basic rights and the structure of government, not political messaging.
Amendment 3 (Crime Victims' Rights): NO. Every one of us wants crime victims treated with dignity. Tennessee voters already put victims' rights in our Constitution in 1998, and the legislature can strengthen them by passing laws at any time. This amendment is part of the national "Marsy's Law" campaign. Similar amendments in other states have had unintended consequences that are very hard to fix once they're in a constitution. The specific protections in this one, such as notice of parole hearings and release dates, belong in statute. There we can adjust them if they don't work as intended. Marsy's Law is bankrolled by Henry T. Nicholas III, the billionaire co-founder of the chip company Broadcom. It's named after his sister, Marsy Nicholas, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in California in 1983. He started with California's version in 2008, then funded Marsy's Law for All, which has pushed near-identical amendments state by state, usually paying for the campaign and lobbying. Tennessee is about the 15th state to vote in on one.
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The Amendments Summary
Amendment 1: Right to Bail
Amendment 1 would eliminate the constitutional right to bail (a legal arrangement where an arrested person is released from custody while awaiting trial) for people charged with certain serious offenses. This includes people charged with offenses beyond those specifically named in the amendment, based on a broader category of offenses tied to costly sentencing requirements. This could mean more Tennesseans are denied bail and lose existing constitutional protections before they have been convicted. People who are wrongfully arrested, come from under-resourced communities, or cannot afford an attorney could be particularly impacted by expanded pretrial detention.
Amendment 2: State Property Tax
Amendment 2 would permanently prohibit Tennessee from imposing a state property tax by putting that prohibition directly into the state Constitution. Tennessee has not had a statewide property tax since 1949, so this amendment would not eliminate a tax Tennesseans currently pay. Instead, it would constitutionally prevent the General Assembly from creating a state property tax in the future, limiting the state's ability to change that policy down the road.
Amendment 3: Crime Victims' Rights
Amendment 3 would expand and strengthen constitutional rights for victims of crime, including rights related to notification, participation in proceedings and the parole process, protection from harassment and intimidation, information about sentencing and release, restitution, and consideration of victims’ and public safety in release decisions.