There are 16 article(s) tagged Voting:

• February 2024

  • This Week in Memphis: Early voting begins, Stickem on Food Network

    Plus, Fat Tuesday and Valentine’s Day are back to back this year, and we’ve got a round-up of ways to celebrate.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff February 11, 2024

• July 2023

  • Conaway: Everything has changed — except the checklist

    “Sure, you can consider if the candidate would vote your way, or if your interests are going to be protected or pursued. You can consider whether or not you both share a love of fried green tomatoes, but without that checklist as your basic guide, all bets are off.”

    By Dan Conaway July 14, 2023

• July 2022

  • Early voting ends with clouds, lines and questions

    Numbers for Saturday’s final day of early voting aren’t out yet. But turnout is expected to top 80,000 for the two-week period. The final day also saw nonpartisan poll parties in two parts of town to boost overall turnout. Election Day is Aug. 4.

    By Bill Dries July 30, 2022

• April 2022

  • Early voting expands to all 26 sites countywide

    Turnout soared Saturday with six early voting locations open and Agricenter and Glenview Community Center as the top locations by turnout. All 26 sites, including the 20 sites that opened Monday are open through April 28. Election day is May 3.

    By Bill Dries April 18, 2022

• June 2021

  • Infrastructure compromise tests partisan divide

    The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast recaps local political development including the county’s budget season and campaign openings for the 2022 county elections. Also, the partisan divide among area legislators remains in place on voting rights and the infrastructure bill.

    By Bill Dries June 27, 2021

  • How Blackburn, Hagerty voted on voting rights bill debate

    In a 50-50 party line procedural vote, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee remained vocal critics of the bill that passed the majority Democratic House in March.

    By Bill Dries June 22, 2021

• April 2021

  • Voting law changes moving slowly in Tennessee

    Despite major voting law reforms in some states, such as Georgia, few major changes have been made so far in Tennessee. 

    By Ian Round April 26, 2021

• March 2021

  • Legislative efforts seek to disconnect voting rights, child support

    Efforts are afoot to remove or ease a Tennessee requirement that child support payments be current in order to vote. 

    By Ian Round March 27, 2021

  • Some felons may regain the right to vote

    Thousands of Tennesseans convicted of certain felonies would regain the right to vote under a proposal from two Nashville Democrats in the General Assembly.

    By Ian Round March 25, 2021

• November 2020

  • Counting panels begin at FedExForum

    Absentee counting boards are underway at FedExForum.

    By Bill Dries November 03, 2020

  • Anthony Tolliver speaks on political divide, importance of voting

    The Memphis Grizzlies soon-to-be free agent says he has no party allegiances. He just wants to vote for candidates who will help people. 

    By Drew Hill November 02, 2020

• August 2020

  • Sanford: Time to start ‘Votes for Bertha,’ because the struggle continues

    Reader suggests a 'Votes for Bertha' campaign in honor of my mother, who faced down resistance to register to vote 56 years ago in Panola County. She would be so pleased.

    By Otis Sanford August 20, 2020

• February 2020

  • Sanford: Voting is serious. Just ask 105-year-old Charlotte Robertson

    Election commission records show Robertson has participated in every presidential election going back to the 1970s – and no doubt long before that. And she rarely misses a Memphis municipal, county or state election, including primaries.

    By Otis Sanford February 27, 2020

• May 2019

  • Malone: County funding for new voting machines should come with no strings attached

    The president of the city's longest running civil rights organization commented on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the funding, voter registration lawsuits and leaving her post this fall.

    By Bill Dries May 31, 2019

• January 2019

  • Motion seeks provisional ballot review in Germantown mayoral election

    John Barzizza, former Germantown alderman and mayoral candidate, has filed a motion to review provisional and absentee paper ballots cast in the 2018 Germantown mayoral race.

    By Abigail Warren January 28, 2019

• October 2018

  • Conaway: The women. Still.

    UP TO THE WOMEN.

    By Dan Conaway October 19, 2018