Thursday is last day to vote early

The early voting period for the Nov. 3 election ends on Thursday following what has been a record turnout.

In-person and absentee voting through the first 12 days had already exceeded the total turnout during the entire early voting of the last presidential election in 2016 period by 16%.

Only five counties had seen decreases with two days of results left to report: Haywood (-12%), Carter (-11%), Franklin (-8%), Madison (-4%), and Knox (-1%).

The biggest increases in early and absentee balloting have occured in Shelby (+44,914), Davidson (+40,278), Rutherford (+25,177), Williamson (+25,177), and Hamilton (13,573).

Here is the statewide breakdown:

County	2020 through 12 Days	Compared with all of 2016
Anderson	23,705	10%
Bedford	12,472	20%
Benton	4,918	10%
Bledsoe	2,184	39%
Blount	43,462	26%
Bradley	31,975	14%
Campbell	7,361	3%
Cannon	3,356	22%
Carroll	7,033	25%
Carter	10,295	-11%
Cheatham	14,458	28%
Chester	4,772	12%
Claiborne	7,832	17%
Clay	2,061	28%
Cocke	9,072	29%
Coffee	14,689	15%
Crockett	3,715	17%
Cumberland	20,558	15%
Davidson	218,787	23%
Decatur	3,308	17%
DeKalb	4,271	9%
Dickson	13,835	21%
Dyer	9,750	10%
Fayette	13,814	6%
Fentress	5,543	12%
Franklin	8,922	-8%
Gibson	12,737	22%
Giles	7,408	8%
Grainger	5,570	21%
Greene	12,872	12%
Grundy	2,969	23%
Hamblen	13,855	4%
Hamilton	88,324	18%
Hancock	1,200	22%
Hardeman	6,096	7%
Hardin	6,636	13%
Hawkins	14,092	8%
Haywood	4,051	-12%
Henderson	7,452	10%
Henry	9,300	14%
Hickman	6,098	31%
Houston	2,326	15%
Humphreys	5,401	9%
Jackson	2,738	33%
Jefferson	15,445	23%
Johnson	4,752	13%
Knox	140,685	-1%
Lake	1,345	12%
Lauderdale	5,784	13%
Lawrence	10,030	22%
Lewis	3,550	21%
Lincoln	8,042	6%
Loudon	21,917	16%
Macon	6,284	19%
Madison	24,788	-4%
Marion	6,687	26%
Marshall	9,961	35%
Maury	26,191	8%
McMinn	13,810	14%
McNairy	6,300	11%
Meigs	3,332	24%
Monroe	13,278	20%
Montgomery	42,132	14%
Moore	2,319	26%
Morgan	4,370	19%
Obion	8,398	6%
Overton	6,168	23%
Perry	1,923	36%
Pickett	1,554	13%
Polk	4,693	40%
Putnam	18,338	3%
Rhea	8,380	23%
Roane	16,694	12%
Robertson	19,190	17%
Rutherford	104,593	32%
Scott	5,670	35%
Sequatchie	4,272	29%
Sevier	23,269	12%
Shelby	288,560	18%
Smith	5,493	15%
Stewart	4,045	14%
Sullivan	46,645	2%
Sumner	55,595	21%
Tipton	18,732	8%
Trousdale	2,584	18%
Unicoi	5,472	13%
Union	3,450	33%
Van Buren	1,576	21%
Warren	8,960	3%
Washington	35,954	16%
Wayne	3,466	12%
Weakley	9,039	18%
White	6,799	10%
Williamson	107,075	28%
Wilson	54,038	28%
TOTAL	1,962,900	16%