{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"CHERYL STOREY","chatgptsummary":"Cheryl Storey's biography shows current service as Washington County Clerk since 2022 and involvement in launching a self-service vehicle registration kiosk, demonstrating direct administrative experience with high-volume public operations and technology management. The record contains no documented controversies or disciplinary actions. Bio does not indicate prior experience managing marriage licenses or detailed knowledge of Tennessee statutes governing business-tax registrations.","notes":null,"party":"R","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nCheryl Storey is the Republican Washington County Clerk, having won the office in the 2022 Republican primary, succeeding retiring three-term clerk Kathy Storey, per Johnson City Press [1]. She is the Republican candidate for Washington County Clerk in the county general election on August 6, 2026.\n\n## Career\nThe County Clerk's office operates from two locations, in Jonesborough and Johnson City [2]. In July 2023, Storey joined Washington County Mayor Joe Grandy and county commissioners to open a new self-service vehicle-registration renewal kiosk at the Johnson City office, according to a Washington County government announcement [3]. The kiosk allows walk-up renewals days, nights, weekends, and holidays by debit or credit card, though it does not dispense license plates or process address changes [3].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Sexton, Grandy and Storey are winners in Tuesday's GOP election \u2013 Johnson City Press](https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/news/sexton-grandy-and-storey-are-winners-in-tuesdays-gop-election/article_23c7b828-cb1b-11ec-9b7d-d7da9a660af2.html) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-06\n[2] [County Clerk | Washington County, TN](https://www.washingtoncountytn.org/224/County-Clerk) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-06\n[3] [Skip the lines! Vehicle registration renewal kiosk is up and running! \u2013 Washington County, TN](https://www.washingtoncountytn.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=152&ARC=243) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-06\n","firstname":"CHERYL","lastname":"STOREY","middlename":null,"suffix":null,"token":"FkHdysZzjD"},"token":"cheryl_storey"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"county_clerk","o.office":null,"office":"county_clerk","officedescription":"The county clerk handles a broad set of public transactions and records: marriage and business licenses, motor-vehicle titling and registration, notary commissions, and the official minutes of the county commission. It is a high-volume administrative and records office.","officequalities":"- Administration of motor-vehicle registration, license plates, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations \u2014 a high-volume, public-facing operation.\n- Working knowledge of the Tennessee statutes governing each of those functions, which change regularly.\n- Customer-service capacity: the clerk's office is one of the most-visited county offices by ordinary residents.\n- Financial controls for collecting state and local fees and remitting them accurately.\n- Supervision of office staff handling high transaction volume, and technology and process management as more services move online.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County Clerk","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":{"retrieved_at":"2026-07-02","title":"Washington County, TN \u2014 August 6, 2026 Sample Ballot","url":"http://www.wcecoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Full-Sample-Ballots.pdf"},"title":"County Clerk"}