Check out photo highlights from the week ending on October 31, 2008, featuring Obama’s campaign trail, the Jennifer Hudson tragedy and early voting around the country.

Altanta, Ga. – Multi-platinum hip-hop recording artist and actor, T.I. went out and exercised his right to vote for the first time. Today, T.I. joined the millions of Americans who are participating in early voting. See the rest of the pictures and watch the video here.

The polling website FiveThirtyEight.com is reporting an unprecedented surge in early voting among African-Americans in three key states: North Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Check out the gallery of this week’s photo highlights, featuring Crystal Mangum, early voting, Ashley Todd, Adam “Pacman” Jones and Santonio Holmes.

Despite some glitches many people across the country went out and exercised their right to vote early on October 20, 2008. Check out what happened on the first day of early voting in the 2008 Presidential election!

Florida kicked off early voting on Monday, with record crowds heading to the polls and voters waiting hours to cast their ballots. Elections officials said the few reported problems were minor.