Voters registered in Rutherford County began casting their votes on October 16, when early voting started. If you are not in the 11 percent of voters who have already cast their ballot, there are nine locations, found on the map below, to do so before October 31.

The R code that created the map above is below.

# Required packages

if (!require("tidyverse"))
  install.packages("tidyverse")
if (!require("sf"))
  install.packages("sf")
if (!require("mapview"))
  install.packages("mapview")
if (!require("leaflet"))
  install.packages("leaflet")
if (!require("leaflet.extras2"))
  install.packages("leaflet.extras2")

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(mapview)
library(leaflet)
library(leaflet.extras2)
library(leafpop)

mapviewOptions(basemaps.color.shuffle = FALSE)

# Load the address and lat/long data

Addresses_gc <- read_csv(
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drkblake/Data/refs/heads/main/EarlyVotingLocations_gc.csv"
)

# Add MTSU

long <- -86.361861
lat <- 35.848997

Addresses_gc <- Addresses_gc %>% 
  add_row(Location = "MTSU",
          long = long,
          lat = lat) %>% 
  mutate(Point = case_when(Location == "MTSU" ~ "MTSU",
                           TRUE ~ "Early vote here"))

MapData <- st_as_sf(Addresses_gc,
                    coords = c("long", "lat"),
                    crs = 4326)

# Make the map

MyMap <- mapview(MapData,
                 zcol = "Point",
                 layer.name = "Point",
                 col.regions = c("orange", "blue"),
                 map.types = c("OpenStreetMap","Esri.WorldImagery"),
                 popup = popupTable(
                   MapData,
                   feature.id = FALSE,
                   row.numbers = FALSE,
                   zcol = c("Location",
                            "Address",
                            "Week",
                            "Weekend")))
# Show the map

MyMap