Early-vote turnout clears 90K in Shelby County
Voters cast their ballots at Riverside Missionary Baptist Church on May 5. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
This year marks the highest early-voting turnout since 2010 for the congressional midterm election cycle.
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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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