Memphis election results certified; council candidate says too many ‘red flags’
Despite concerns raised by a Memphis City Council candidate regarding how the election was conducted, the Shelby County Election Commission unanimously certified the Memphis municipal election results. Voters cast their ballots at the Whitehaven Community Center on Election Day Oct. 5, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Shelby County Election Commission may take a closer look at its procedures after a poll inspector’s car was broken into the day before election day. The commission voted unanimously Monday, Oct. 16, to certify the election results.
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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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