July 16, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A total of 138 cast ballots Saturday during the second day of Early Voting for the August Elections including 130 in person and 8 by absentee. That brings the two-day total (Friday and Saturday) combined to 351 with 325 in person and 26 by absentee.
On Saturday, 112 voted in the Tennessee Republican Primary and 22 in the State Democratic Primary. Four voted only in the DeKalb County General Election without casting a ballot in either state primary. For the two days combined (Friday and Saturday) 278 have cast ballots in the State GOP Primary and 51 in the State Democratic Primary while 22 have voted only in the County General Election without participating in the state primaries.
Two people voted Saturday in the Alexandria Municipal Election, 3 in Dowelltown, 2 in Liberty, and 40 in the Smithville City Election. That brings the two-day total (Friday and Saturday) combined to 101 in the Smithville Municipal Election, 6 in Liberty, 5 in Alexandria, and 6 in the Dowelltown City Election.
Early voting times are as follows at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Smithville: Mondays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesdays 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.; Wednesdays 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.; Thursdays 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. until Noon. Early voting will also be held again in the western part of the county on a limited basis. The DeKalb County Fairgrounds will be the site of early voting on July 19th from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on July 25 from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Each early voting site is for any properly registered DeKalb County voter.