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 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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