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The deadline is the end of the business day Tuesday for those not already registered. But 83% of the county's voting age population is already on the voting rolls. Meanwhile, about 7,500 Shelby Countians already registered to vote have requested absentee ballots — far above the usual number of requests for the mail-in ballots.
Nine ministers – who were all involved in the set of private meetings with the mayor that lead up to his City Hall announcement Thursday regarding moves toward police reform – put out a letter Friday critical of the reforms Strickland had announced.
Memphis voters and a voter advocacy organization are suing the state for a court order allowing any voter worried about the COVID-19 pandemic to vote via absentee ballot.
The unspoken sentiment behind objections to relaxing residency rules appears to be the prospect that white officers from small towns in North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Eastern Arkansas would be policing unfamiliar territory in North Memphis, South Memphis and Orange Mound.
At stake is a possible move to take a ballot question off the ballot in November that would expand residency requirement for police and firefighters.
Thousands lined up to tour the National Civil Rights Museum Monday and at a Midtown forum, there was new reaction to Sunday's tour of the museum by Vice President Mike Pence. The reactions 52 years after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination show his legacy and what it means today remains a volatile topic.
Earle Fisher of Memphis disagrees with the notion the Black Voter Project or #UPTheVote901 committed voter fraud when they turned in thousands of voter registration applications, including many incomplete forms, to the Shelby County Election Commission in 2018. But the state representative who sponsored the legislation claims they were "fraudulent."
Some groups holding candidate forums are trying to change the formula as endorsement ballots begin showing up in mailboxes. And one pastor questions how much the endorsement of him or other religious leaders means 28 years after the last city election that drew a majority of the city's voters to the polls.
Mayor Lee Harris held a press conference Wednesday urging county leaders to find a way to raise the minimum wage of SCS cafeteria workers to $15 per hour.
Six groups, including a Memphis-based law firm, filed suit this week challenging Tennessee’s new third-party voter registration law, contending it violates “fundamental” constitutional rights with the threat of civil and criminal penalties.
People’s Convention organizer Earle Fisher talks with Bill Dries about plans to push back the date for the gathering and going from a “candidate-centered” political model to a “community-centered” one.
Rev. Earle Fisher spoke to Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church the day before Martin Luther King Day. He encouraged the congregation to continue to strive for racial equality.
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