2015 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 6 - Absentee Voting
Part 1 - Purpose and Early Voting
§ 2-6-102 - Early voting applications -- Ballots -- Time for voting.

(a) (1) A voter who desires to vote early shall go to the county election commission office or another polling place appropriately designated by the county election commission within the posted hours not more than twenty (20) days nor less than five (5) days before the day of the election. A voter desiring to vote in the early voting period shall sign an application for a ballot.

(2) The state coordinator shall supply or approve the form of the application for a ballot.

(b) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b)(2), in the case of a municipal election not held in conjunction with any primary election, the regular August or November general elections, or any special primary or special general election for state or federal offices, if there is no opposition, including any write-in candidate that has filed the appropriate notice pursuant to § 2-7-133(i), for any of the offices involved, there shall not be an early voting period.

(2) Subdivision (b)(1) shall not apply to municipal elections held in the largest municipality located in a county having a metropolitan form of government which has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a)(1), when a presidential preference primary is held or an election is held at the same time as a presidential preference primary, a voter who desires to vote early for such elections shall go to the county election commission office within the posted hours not more than twenty (20) days nor less than seven (7) days before the day of the election.