2026 Elections

More than 9,000 cast early and absentee ballots in first two days of early voting

By , Daily Memphian Updated: July 20, 2026 9:29 AM CT | Published: July 20, 2026 9:29 AM CT

Most of the early and absentee votes in the first two days of the ongoing early voting period were cast in Democratic state and federal primaries.

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2026 elections early voting Shelby County Election Commission Tennessee Secretary of State Absentee ballots

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Bill Dries

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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