Memphis polls ‘gotten a lot busier’
Up to 3:30 p.m., the Shelby County Election Commission numbers showed an Election Day turnout of 16,830 compared to almost 58,000 voters during the early voting period.
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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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Mayoral candidate Young takes absentee, early vote by 2,600-vote margin
The 14-day early voting period drew nearly 58,000 voters with a turnout bigger than Thursday’s Election Day across the city.
St. Paul Baptist Church sees fewer than 300 voters as of 5:15 p.m.
As of 5:15 p.m., there had been 268 voters at St. Paul Baptist Church, 2124 E. Holmes Road, in District 3, according to Morgan Johnson, deputy officer for the polling location.
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