Ballot measures · November 3, 2026

Tennessee

3 statewide measures on Tennessee's November 3, 2026 ballot, in the order the state lists them.1,2

Research draftList not marked certified

Research draft. We gathered this from official sources on October 27, 2026: election offices, state laws and court records, each linked to its source. Separate reviewers checked a random sample of 48 facts from the ballot-measure research against the cited sources and found no errors. The rest hasn't been reviewed fact by fact yet, so check the linked source before relying on anything here.

§1On the ballot

§2Where this list comes from

The list above comes from these official sources. Researched October 27, 2026.

None of them calls the list certified or final, so we don’t either.

§3Notes on the research

What the research couldn’t find or confirm, in its own plain words. Nothing is left out silently.

  • The Secretary of State's website (https://sos.tn.gov/elections) and its file server (sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com) both answered with a CloudFront request block, so we stopped using them and could not read the state's own list or official summaries of the amendments. The list here comes from two county election commissions' sample ballots (Knox and Davidson), which show the same three amendments, plus the General Assembly's resolutions and bill-status pages.
  • Threshold not confirmed: the resolutions say the amendments are submitted under Article XI, Section 3 of the Tennessee Constitution, but we could not read that section on an official site (the Secretary of State's site was blocked, the courts' site at tncourts.gov showed a script challenge, and the General Assembly's site has no copy we could find). Our unconfirmed working understanding is that an amendment needs a majority of the votes on it and yes votes equal to a majority of all votes cast for governor; a reviewer should check the constitution's text and change the rule to compound if that is right.
  • The county sample ballots are labeled sample or preview ballots and do not call the list certified or final, so the list is not marked certified.
  • The Senate adopted Senate Joint Resolution 9 with an amendment that we did not read; our description of Constitutional Amendment #3 follows the text printed on the Knox County sample ballot, which matched the introduced resolution in the parts we compared.
  • The ballots print a summary and the full question for each amendment but no short title, so no title is given.