A total of 1,549 DeKalb Countians have taken advantage of early voting. After nine days of early voting for the Aug. 7 elections, 1,448 people had voted in person and 101 had cast absentee ballots as of Monday. A total of 574 cast ballots in the Tennessee Republican Primary, 457 voted in the Tennessee Democratic Primary, and 518 voted only in the DeKalb County General Election without voting in a primary.