‘Black-Out’ protest boosts second-day voting turnout

By , Daily Memphian Published: April 14, 2022 7:15 PM CT
<strong>Rev. Earle Fisher leads a group in communion outside the Shelby County Election Commission&rsquo;s early-voting site as part of a&nbsp;&ldquo;Black-Out&rdquo; protest over limiting the first two days of early voting to just the Downtown site.</strong> (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)

Rev. Earle Fisher leads a group in communion outside the Shelby County Election Commission’s early-voting site as part of a “Black-Out” protest over limiting the first two days of early voting to just the Downtown site. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)

Thursday marked the withdrawal deadline for contenders in the August election, with several developments in the nonpartisan judicial races that are a major part of that ballot.

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2022 elections Black Clergy Collaborative Shelby County Election Commission early voting

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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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