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Among the misguided proposals presented at the Tennessee Legislature, none would have as much negative impact on the majority of Tennesseans as the bill introduced last week to abolish early voting in the state.
Election officials put trust in people’s respect for meticulous process.
In total, 76 members of the Memphis football team are registered to vote, and many already have filed ballots.
“I have never considered a single vote of mine to be wasted, because it was my vote, mine alone to make, and proof of my participation as a citizen of this city, state, and country, and of the privilege and responsibility of that citizenship.”
The massive turnout is being driven in large part by the laser-focused desire to get Trump and his enablers out of the White House. But turnout also is being fueled to a lesser degree by Trump supporters.
Chris Herrington says he’s worried about kids going back to school, but worried about them not going back to school, and is rooting for SCS to find a safe way to do it. Plus, nine more opinions.
Thursday marks one week to the end of early voting in the presidential general election. While turnout has slipped a bit after the weekend, it is still ahead of the early voting count at this point for the three previous elections in the cycle.
The firing was confirmed by an election commission spokesperson after state Rep. Antonio Parkinson posted about the change in personnel Sunday on social media.
Voters lined up before the doors opened Wednesday at 26 early-voting sites across Shelby County and kept coming through the morning. Early voting continues through Oct. 29. Election Day is Nov. 3. Related Story: Ballot Basics: Voting Absentee and Lessons from August
Historically, I’m an Election Day voter. This year, I’m planning to break precedent. We’re in a pandemic. Everything’s a little unsettled. Well, everything except my personal ballot, which will be short on truly contested races and even shorter on indecision.
Here is what you need to know about voting early in the presidential general election in Shelby County, from voting locations to how to know what races will be on your specific ballot.
So far, the return by voters of the unusually high number of the mail-in ballots hasn't shown up in the early voting turnout figures. Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips told county commissioners Wednesday, July 22, that some absentee voters may not complete their ballots because they are expecting to see the presidential general election that is on the November ballot.
The deadline to request an absentee ballot is July 30, so more ballot requests are on the way. Meanwhile, a total of 12,314 Shelby County voters have cast their ballots -- absentee and through in-person early voting -- in the first three days of the period that runs through Aug. 1. Election day is Aug. 6.
Mauricio Calvo’s withdrawal accented the opening day of early voting in Memphis. Preliminary numbers show more than 5,000 people voted early Friday. In getting out of the District 5 school board race, Calvo cited his duties as executive director of Latino Memphis and the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on Latino Memphians.
Here are the basics you need to know in order to vote early and make sure your ballot has all of the races it is supposed to have, including district races.
More than 13,000 Shelby Countians had requested absentee ballots through Wednesday.
Early voting across Shelby County in advance of the Aug. 6 election date resumes Monday, July 20, after the first two days drew nearly 8,000 voters.
Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova is replaced by Briarwood Church among the 26 locations that open for July 17 for the early voting period in advance of the Aug. 6 election day. State and federal primaries as well as county general elections are on the ballot. And more than 5,000 citizens have applied so far to vote by absentee ballots in the election.
The first numbers from the start of early voting are strong and much higher than the same point in early voting four years ago.
Bill Dries' roundup includes the Memphis federal court case from the 1990s that has some similarities to the Roger Stone case.
Most of the early vote in the two Memphis City Council runoff races was in the District 7 matchup between incumbent Berlin Boyd and challenger Michalyn Easter-Thomas.
The five early voting sites opening Friday join a single early voting site Downtown that was open for the first week of the voting period.
The 6,258 early voters Saturday followed a Friday surge of 7,196 that pushed the total turnout for the 14-day period to 361 more than in city elections four years ago.
Early voting turnout through Saturday was still lower than it was during 2015 early voting. But for a second consecutive day, Saturday's turnout was greater than the same day four years ago. By age, voters older than 65 are outperforming their percentage of the city's voting base. Council districts 5 and 6 had the highest turnout percentage thus far.
The numbers for early voting in the Oct. 3 Memphis elections show Friday's total was the first this year that exceeded the same day four years ago.
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