Prospective voters trickled into the Hamilton County Election Commission on Monday morning, the last day to register to vote in Tennessee, after a weekend of party-affiliated rallies took place across the greater Chattanooga region.
As of 3 p.m. Monday, 240,687 people were registered to vote in Hamilton County, with 4,732 of them having requested absentee ballots, according to the election commission.
The voter registration deadline was midnight, so the final total was unavailable Monday afternoon. Since the August primary election, 9,800 voters have registered. In 2020, the county added 12,000 new voters between the August primary and November general elections. In 2016, 7,500 new voters registered during the same period.
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In Northwest Georgia, Democrats from Walker, Dade, Catoosa, and Chattooga counties held a rally Sunday at the Colonnade in Ringgold. Attendees wrote postcards for Democratic candidates on the ballot and candidates spoke.