First day in voting in Tennessee

Early voting in tennessee started today, and a record turnout is expected.

News 12's winston reed speaks to voters waiting in line, and hears what tennessee's secretary of state has to say about this election year.

Day one of early voting tennessee did not disappoint.

The crowd was massive.

Voters eager to cast their ballot.

"these long lines are a testiment that people want to have their voices heard."

"i am so glad.

This is one of the longest lines that i have ever seen and it just brings so much joy."

Secretary of state tre hargett met with voters in hamilton county.

"i expect a new record to be set.

I think there is a lot of enthusiasm on both sides.

I'll be disappointed if there is not a new record set."

While the first day turnout was no surpise to hargett, he also anticipates a heavy turnout withmail in ballots.

"our goal is to county every vote acurately."

Standup: the key this year is for voters to be patient for election results after november 3rd.

"certification never happens on election night.

Those are always unnoficial results, it takes about three weeks for all the 95 counties, roll those results back up to the state to have those results certified.

So, it just takes some time.

All of the results that you see on election night are unofficial" the early voting period ends october 29th.

Reporting in hamilton county winston reed news 12 now.

The secretary of state tre hargett responded to claims of voter supression by repsentative yusuf hakeem.

We take any allegation seriously.

We need some more detail.

We know that on a bipartisan basis, this election commission here takes anything like that very seriously.

So we look forward to working with them to remedy any issues.

If you were in here today,what you would see is people in a bipartisan way workingin a very efficient fashion working to get voters in and out.

And they don't care what zip code somebody is from, they don't care what part of town they live in, they don't care how many zeros they have in ther bank account.

News 12 reached out to representative hakeem for a response.

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