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Glitches, suspicion overshadow heavy start of early voting

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 19, 2018 4:54 PM CT | Published: October 18, 2018 4:35 PM CT
<strong>Reflected in the doors at the Agricenter, Memphians line up outside, sometimes waiting an hour and a half to cast their ballot during the first day of early voting in Shelby County on Oct. 17, 2018.</strong> (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Reflected in the doors at the Agricenter, Memphians line up outside, sometimes waiting an hour and a half to cast their ballot during the first day of early voting in Shelby County on Oct. 17, 2018. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

When the first day of early voting in advance of the Nov. 6 election day had ended Wednesday, Shelby County election commissioner Norma Lester offered her verdict on how it went with a brief Facebook post. “Don’t know any other way to say it except the first day of Early Voting was absolute HELL!” she wrote. “Hoping for a better Second day.”

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

Bill Dries covers city government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.

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