Tuesday is Deadline for Voter Registration

Tuesday, October 11, is the deadline to register to vote and be able to cast a ballot in the November 8 municipal, state and federal election, officials said.

Those interested in registering by computer, phone or tablet and have a state issued drivers license can register on line at govotetn.gov.

Voters can download a paper voter registration at same site.. Voters can then submit that in person to the local election commission or mail it. The application must be postmarked by Tuesday.

Tennessee does not have election day registration.

Early voting for the November 8 election begins on October 19 and runs Monday through Saturday until November 3.

The deadline to request an absentee by-mail ballot is November 1.

The November 8 ballot includes the election for Mayor of East Ridge and two City Councilpersons, as well as contests for governor and Congress. All 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives and odd-numbered Tennessee Senate seats are on the ballot.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.