Political Roundup: McKissack opens campaign HQ and how many votes to become mayor
Memphis Mayoral contender Michelle McKissack hopes to join rival contenders with television adds with less than a month to the start of early voting. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Campaigns are anticipating a voter turnout of around 100,000 voters when all of the votes are counted Oct. 5. Some candidates believe one of them could win the mayors race with as few as 25,000 votes.
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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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