Nearly 27,000 cast early ballots ahead of March 5 primary election day
Turnout was low for 2024 early voting in Shelby County. Poll workers help voters on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 at Second Baptist Church. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The 12-day early voting period saw Democratic primary turnout drop to less than half what it was four years ago while Republican primary turnout was off by almost 1,500 from 2020.
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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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