On Oct. 14, the first day of early voting in Tennessee, Terri Jackson and her husband, Jaren Jackson Sr., were excited to partake for the first time in their lives—so excited, in fact, that they arrived at the wrong place, showing up at their normal location instead of the dedicated early-voting site.
It was an honest mistake that resulted in an hour or so of waiting in line to vote. The executive director of the WNBPA, Jackson jokingly shamed herself for not following her own association’s advice to plan ahead when going to the polls.
“The WNBPA’s been working with Rock the Vote for a while,” Jackson says while en route to a local church to cast her ballot.