Nearly 27,000 cast early ballots ahead of March 5 primary election day

By , Daily Memphian Updated: February 29, 2024 6:08 PM CT | Published: February 29, 2024 11:24 AM CT

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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2024 elections early voter turnout Tennessee presidential primary Shelby County Election Commission

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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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