Wanda Halbert seeks recount in primary loss
Outgoing Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert lost the Democratic primary for Criminal Court Clerk on the May 5 ballot by 126 votes. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Halbert lost the Democratic primary for Criminal Court Clerk on the May 5 ballot by 126 votes to state Rep. Joe Towns Jr.
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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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