Coalition says limiting first days of early voting to one site is unfair
Rev. Earle Fisher, of the groups UpTheVote901 and the Black Clergy Collaborative, says a lawsuit over the April early-voting schedule is being explored. “We don’t believe that is just. We don’t believe that is fair,” Fisher said at a Wednesday, March 9, press conference. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The Election Commission’s decision not to open early-voting sites at churches during the Easter weekend is renewing charges of voter suppression.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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