State House hopeful’s write-in bid killed by ‘sore loser’ election laws
Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins directed the Shelby County Election Commission in a Sept. 15 letter to deny Kyler Gilkey’s, left, request to count any write-in votes he might get. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Kyler Gilkey’s second bid for public office this year was shut down by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office because it was his second attempt at a state House of Representatives seat, albeit a different one.
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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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