Political Roundup: Early voter turnout and an immigrant poll party
Gaisman Park in Berclair includes a community center that became an early voting site this year. The park and center have come to symbolize the Berclair area’s diversity and status as a community of immigrants. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Also, Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty push claims of noncitizens voting in a new call for federal officials to act despite evidence voter purges in other states are removing citizens entitled to vote.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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