NASHVILLE – More than 725,000 Tennesseans cast ballots last week during the state’s first four days of early voting in the Nov. 3 general election, a record-busting 42% jump over 2016 as voters continued to line up at polling stations as well as hit mail boxes with absentee mail-in ballots.
Those voting so far represent 16.4% of the state’s 4.4 million registered voters.
Georgia voters, meanwhile, continued setting records as well, casting 1.48 million early ballots through Saturday. With the addition of another 58,494 votes by mid-day Monday, the figure of ballots cast was just over 1.55 million.
Early voting resumed Monday in both states in races from the presidential contest between Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Joe Biden to U.S. Senate and down-ballot races for state legislatures.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s office said that on Saturday at least 103,219 more votes were cast, bringing the total for the first four days to 727,290. Figures excluded six of the state’s 95 counties, including Monroe and Blount counties in East Tennessee.