Political Roundup: The primary issue. Do we still need them?
Bruce Evans instructs Toni M. Wooten about the voting machine at Hope Church, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Low voter turnout at primaries is creating a debate over the role of the primaries in county and city elections. (Greg Campbell/Special for The Daily Memphian file)
A call to end county primary elections draws fire during the “On The Record” podcast as Democrats tout their countywide slate in Germantown and Republican mayoral nominee Worth Morgan opens his campaign headquarters in East Memphis.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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