That's a 51% return rate of the 2,268,186 absentee ballots requested, as of Tuesday. As of Oct. 15, 672,585 voters had returned an absentee ballot. That represented a return rate of around 31%,

Tennessee offers absentee voting, allowing voters to cast their ballot even if they can't physically make it to their polling site on Nov. 5. In Tennessee, voters can request an absentee ballot no earlier than 90 days before an election and no later than seven days before the election.