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Tennessee, Georgia voters continue to break early voting records

People wait in line to vote at the Brentwood Library on the first day of Tennessee's early voting Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Brentwood, Tenn. The early, in-person voting period runs Monday through Saturday until Thursday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
People wait in line to vote at the Brentwood Library on the first day of Tennessee's early voting Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Brentwood, Tenn. The early, in-person voting period runs Monday through Saturday until Thursday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) People wait in line to vote at the Brentwood Library on the first day of Tennessee's early voting Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Brentwood, Tenn. The early, in-person voting period runs Monday through Saturday until Thursday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

By Andy Sher 3 min read

NASHVILLE – Tennesseans and Georgians continued casting record numbers of early votes in the Nov. 3 presidential election last week.

In Hamilton County, in-person early voting and mail-in absentee figures through Saturday threatened to eclipse 2016’s totals with four more days of early voting still left this week.

During the first 10 days of early voting through Saturday, 1.65 million Tennesseans had cast in-person or absentee mail-in ballots, according to figures released Sunday afternoon by Secretary of State Tre Hargett.

That’s a 39.84% increase, or 471,097 more voters, than the 1.18 million people who cast early ballots in 2016.

Across the border in Georgia, 2.75 million ballots had been been cast as of 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday, already more than double 2016’s total 1.3 million in-person early and absentee-by-mail figures, according to numbers released Sunday by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Of that, 35,665 voted Sunday in counties where polls were open.