‘Black-Out’ protest boosts second-day voting turnout
Rev. Earle Fisher leads a group in communion outside the Shelby County Election Commission’s early-voting site as part of a “Black-Out” protest over limiting the first two days of early voting to just the Downtown site. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Thursday marked the withdrawal deadline for contenders in the August election, with several developments in the nonpartisan judicial races that are a major part of that ballot.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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