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
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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early vote Karl Dean Norma Lester Shelby County Election Commission Tennessee Black Voter Project

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