- The Washington Times - Thursday, October 22, 2026

Dolly Parton’s sister Stella Parton says that while she was voting early in Tennessee ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, her ballot changed three times to Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who’s running for governor.

“In Tennessee last week at the Hermitage Library where I voted, I had to go back three times and correct my vote because it kept defaulting to Marsha Blackburn,” Ms. Parton wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post. “I would never vote for her for anything.”

She concluded her message by writing, “Don’t let them rig this election.”

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Tennessee’s Secretary of State’s Office says it has received only one similar complaint out of about 400,000 ballots cast.

Dolly Parton died in August.

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