More than twice as many Republicans as Democrats cast ballots during early voting in Anderson County this year, election officials said Monday.
Early voting ended Saturday, and as of Monday afternoon, the Anderson County Election Commission had counted a total of 6,599 votes.
Republicans cast 4,371 of those votes and Democrats 1,904, said Stephanie Gamble, Anderson County Election Commission deputy administrator.
Tre Hargett
A record number of Tennessee voters cast ballots early this year, but the number of early votes appeared to be down in Anderson County and possibly Roane County.
As of Wednesday, 223,281 Tennesseans had either voted early or mailed in absentee ballots for the Aug. 2 election, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced Thursday.
That’s up from 206,174 during the entire early voting period in August 2008, Hargett said. There were 11,267 people who mailed in absentee ballots in that election.
The number of voters casting ballots on the first day of early voting Friday was up from 2010, the Anderson County Election Commission said.
Elections Administrator Mark Stephens said 642 people voted Friday, up 146 from 2010.
Early voting began this morning for the Aug. 2 county general election and state and federal primary elections.
There are three early voting locations in Anderson County, one in Oak Ridge, a second in Clinton, and a third in Andersonville.
