Early voting begins Wednesday
By Mike Steely
Senior Writer
steelym@knoxfocus.com
Knox County voters who choose to vote early may do so starting Wednesday, October 16. Early voting ends October 31 and the general election is Tuesday, November 5.
Registered voters may choose any poll location and there are three new ones: Village Green Shopping Center in Farragut, Gibbs Ruritan Club in Corryton and Baker School on the UT Campus. Other voting places include the City-County Building, Carter Senior Center, Downtown West Shopping Center, Eternal Life Harvest Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, the Halls Recreation Center, Knoxville Expo Center, New Harvest Park, Meridian Baptist Church on Chapman Highway and the Karns Senior Center on Oak Ridge Highway.
Voting hours are generally 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Saturday hours are 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. October 19 and 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on October 28. The Karns Senior Center and Meridian Baptist Church have special hours and the UT polling place is open only the last week of early voting, October 28 – 31.
The ballot is a three-page document and includes choosing electors for the U.S. Presidency, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and Tennessee Senate. Voters will also vote, depending on their district, on candidates for the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Knoxville City voters have two charter amendments to vote on, one regarding placing the Fifth District into the election rotation with other districts and one to designate how future city elections will be held. Both amendments request a “For or Against” decision from voters.
