Hargett visits Anderson County
Secretary of State Tre Hargett visited the early voting site at Oak Ridge History Museum on Thursday Oct. 15. (photo:Ben Pounds )
Hargett said he was trying to visit multiple voting locations during this early voting period.
“Number one, we want to thank the poll workers who make these elections happen,” he said. “We can have great laws. We can have great leadership at the local level like Mark Stevens, but if we don’t have poll workers we can’t do this.”
“We want to encourage them to be prepared voters,” he said, pointing to the ballot’s three constitutional amendments that he encouraged people read. “If you’re a registered voter the most fundamental way you can participate in your form of government is by going to vote.”
He praised Stevens and said the poll workers had been friendly in how they moved people through the early voting process and pointed out that they included Democrats and Republicans working together.
“Frankly that’s what I see across the state,” he said.