Missed early voting? Election Day awaits
Ballot Basics: Everything you need to know as you head to the poll
Voters cast ballots on the last day of early voting at Anointed Temple of Praise on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Here’s everything you need to know about voting in Shelby County on the May 5 election day and a look at what is at stake in this election along with some trends in voter turnout.
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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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