One Week Left for Early Voting in the May FIrst Local Primaries

Early voting continues through Thursday, April 26 for the upcoming May First Republican and Democratic Primaries at the County Election Commission office in the Milo Lemmert building, the old Post Office on Main Street. 

Votes must choose either the Republican or the Democratic primary to vote in.  Most of the candidates appear on the Republican ballot including 7 candidates for County Mayor, 3 for Road Superintendent and 2 for Circuit Court Clerk. Sample ballots are below.

Most races will be decided by the primary voting and several have already been decided since only one candidate qualified.  Those with no competition include incumbent Sheriff Casey Cox, County Clerk Jule Bryson, and County Trustee Kim Tollet Wyatt.

Races decided by the primary include Circuit Court Clerk race and the Road Superintendent Race.

The winner of the Republican primary for County Mayor will face independent candidate Sandra Davis in the August County General Election.

The Democrat ballot only includes one race for the Registrar of Deeds with only incumbent Judy Graham Swallows on the ballot and she will retain her office with no other candidate qualifying. 

Voters are required to have a government-issued photo ID to be able to vote.

The ONLY Candidate with previous Mayoral

Experience: Doug Scarlett!

Paid Political Announcement

To find out more about Doug Scarlett

Visit DougScarlettForMayor.Com

Now available for Andriod and Apple in

the Play Store and Apple App Store! 

Search: NewCarDawg

Visit NewCarDawg.com for more!

Milo Lemmert Building where early voting

takes place.

Early Voting gets underway and continues through April 26 at the Election Commission office

Early voting starts at 8 AM and continues through April 26 for the May First Republican and Democratic Primaries.

Votes must choose either the Republican or the Democratic primary to vote in.  Most of the candidates are on the Republican ballot including 7 candidates for County Mayor, 3 for Road Superintendent and 2 for Circuit Court Clerk. Sample ballots are below.

The Democrat ballot only includes one race for the Registrar of Deeds with only incumbent Judy Graham Swallows on the ballot.

Voters are required to have a government-issued photo ID to be able to vote.

The ONLY Candidate with previous Mayoral

Experience: Doug Scarlett!

Paid Political Announcement

To find out more about Doug Scarlett

Visit DougScarlettForMayor.Com

Now available for Andriod and Apple in

the Play Store and Apple App Store! 

Search: NewCarDawg

Visit NewCarDawg.com for more!

Milo Lemmert Building where early voting

takes place.

Gubernatorial candidate Mae Beavers addresses supporters in Crossville at a recent campaign stop.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Mae Beavers stopped by Crossville for a visit with supporters and spoke about her plans for Tennessee's future.

The event was held at the Christmas decorated home of Donna McDermott who ran for mayor of Crossville 8 years ago. The event gave supporters the opportunity to chat with the candidate and discuss politics before the candidate spoke for a few minutes about the issues she sees in the upcoming race to replace Bill Haslam.

Beavers told supporters that she fought the increase in the gasoline tax because the state currently has a surplus that could be used for roads. She said the wants to see the gas tax removed and sales tax removed from food. On other taxes, Beavers said she had fought the income tax proposed several years ago.

Gubernatorial candidate Mae Beavers addresses

supporters in Crossville

According to Beavers, “lots of legislators are leaving or running for other offices and concerned about elections.

Education is another topic Beavers talked about saying she'd like to get rid of common core. The race to the top funding is also a problem and currently, the state testing contractor can't get results to the state in time for test results to be used to grade students or teachers on their progress. She added that there should be transparency from the testing company and school decisions are better when they are local as not all schools are the same.

Concern about the opioid crises was also discussed by Beavers. She said one business owner she talked to said he can't hire half the people that apply because they can't pass a drug test. One business owner she talked to took men from jail, helped them get off of drugs and give them jobs and his company has been very successful doing that. The substitute drugs that people are given keep them addicted just one something different.

Beavers said she thinks the State Attorney General should be elected to represent the people. She proposed that each state department should have an inspector general to watch for waste and fraud.

Beavers told those gathered that she was the most conservative candidate in the race and added, “I'd put my record up against anyone. She said she was targeting conservatives, tea party members and Republican women's groups adding that money is needed for impact and grassroots support is very important in this race.

When asked what she'd like to be remembered for she said she'd want to be remembered as a governor with common sense.   

Early Voting continues through July 30 for August 4 election--Sample Ballots included

Early voting continues through noon on Saturday July 30 at the Milo Lemmert building across from the Cumberland County Courthouse at the Election Commission offices.

The Milo Lemmert Building is the location for early voting through July 30.  Hours are 8 to 5 Monday through Friday and 8 to Noon on Saturday. 

In addition to the Democrat and Republican primaries on State and Congressional Races there are county elections for the office of Property Assessor, several board of education seats and seats on the county commission.  

Democratic Primary sample ballot

Republican Primary sample Ballot

School Board races sample ballot

Property Assessor and County Commission sample ballot

In addition there are the names of 11 sitting justices and judges that votes can choose either to retain or replace on the ballot for appellate and supreme court seats. Those up for voter decisions include three Supreme Court at large justices Jeffery S. Bivins, Holly Kirby and Roger A. Page.  Appellate judges on the ballot include Kenny Armstrong, Brandon O. Gibson, Arnold B. Goldin, Robert H. Montgomery, Timothy L. Easter, Robert L. Holloway and J. Ross Dyer