More than 24,000 Knox County residents have visited the polls early for this election season. Election officials said they expect around 70 percent of Knox County voters to cast their ballots during the early voting period.
Early voting started in Tennessee last Wednesday. It ends November 1st. The official election day is November 6th.
In Knox County, most of the nine voting locations are opened from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm. Tennesseans need to remember to bring a government-issued photo ID to vote in this election because of a new state law.