Deadline is noon for May 5 Shelby County primary ballot
The deadline to get on the ballot for primaries in May is noon Feb. 19. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Here’s a tentative view of which County races could be won at the noon Thursday, Feb. 19, deadline, which primary contenders will advance to the August county general races at the deadline and which races are packed with contenders vying for a win on the May 5 election day.
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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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