Voter registration deadline for August election likely to pass quietly
Poll worker Joyce Bradley (left) embraces Ruby Rosenthal, a former poll worker, at the Bellvue Frayser Church polling location as voters go to the polls on March 3, 2020, to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian) (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
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.
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