Some polling sites too busy to report numbers, Election Commission says
The Shelby County Election Commission reported a tentative number of ballots cast since the polls opened at 7 a.m., but the final number is “going to be just a surprise.”
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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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