Shelby County elections administrator Linda Phillips says her goal is still to have a new voting system in place when early voting begins July 17 in advance of the Aug. 6 election day.

With three weeks to the filing deadline, some incumbent state legislators still haven't pulled their petitions to seek new terms in Nashville and a few of those races are filling up with potential challengers.

The countywide Democratic party convention Saturday at Kirby High School is the first of two steps in selecting delegates to this summer's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. 

Michael Harris and party Democratic Party Vice Chair Sarah Beth Larson also talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about Saturday’s local Democratic convention, the first of two steps to select delegates to this summer's Democratic National Convention. 

Presidential campaign culture has some rules and habits that change over time and as technology changes. Here are a few observed locally in the campaign to Super Tuesday.

Memphians likely got their closest view of the presidential campaigns in the lead-up to Super Tuesday. The state isn't considered a battleground state in the general election.

While the fight was for second place in the Democratic primary field of 13, Joe Brown emerged the victor in his second election in a year. He faces Republican Paul Boyd, upset in a Probate Court re-election bid two years ago in the August county general election.

Biden won big in the county and across the state with Bloomberg betting big on Super Tuesday as his entry point to the Democratic nomination. Bloomberg's early organization in Memphis proved no match for Biden's post-South Carolina momentum.

Voters turned out to polling locations around town on Super Tuesday, March 3, to cast their ballot in the Tennessee presidential primaries and the primaries for Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk.

Polls across Shelby County are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday with the state's presidential primaries topping the ballot. The presidential campaign Memphis voters saw for the past year has been mostly on the Democratic side with a few appearances by the contenders themselves.

Everything you need to know to vote on election day, from finding your precinct to keeping your long fingernails and voting in confidence.

Cordova resident Patti Possel announced Monday she has qualified to run as a Republican for election to the state House District 96 seat representing Cordova and part of Germantown.

Joe Biden's wife pushed for votes Sunday during brunch time in South Main. Signs of other Democratic contenders were close by. And a Bloomberg rally Saturday in West Memphis featured five mayors supporting the former New York City mayor. Tennessee's primary is Tuesday as part of the 14-state Super Tuesday set of primaries. 

Presidential historian Michael Nelson of Rhodes College has a new book about the Clinton presidency and the former Arkansas governor's two runs for the White House. On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Nelson linked Clinton's influence and time in power to the course that brought Donald Trump to the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg took jabs at President Trump and his Democratic rivals during a Memphis stop Friday morning. 

Actor and activist Ashley Judd campaigned in the city Wednesday for Elizabeth Warren. Rival Michael Bloomberg comes to town Friday, and former Vice President Joe Biden's ads will saturate local television on the way to Super Tuesday.

The total is ahead of the early vote at this point four years ago but the difference narrowed over the weekend. And Davidson County leads the state's 95 counties in turnout through Saturday.

The last weekend of early voting in Shelby County saw the local Sanders campaign buoyed by caucus results in Nevada and a similar grass roots strategy unfolding in Memphis from rival Democrats in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor on Trump, who the Democrats are likely to nominate and why Shelby County is purple, not blue.

The declaration by Chris Tutor on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast echoes a recent message by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Tutor also says he sees Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee and challenger to President Donald Trump.

Dr. George Flinn of Memphis is making a sixth run for Congress, and he's willing to spend big in hopes of ending D.C.’s “drama” and putting policy to the nation's biggest problems at the forefront

Several of the Democratic presidential campaigns started looking for Memphis votes on the first weekend of the early voting period with local politicos leading the charge to the March 3 election day.

The first numbers from the start of early voting are strong and much higher than the same point in early voting four years ago. 

Former school board member Tomeka Hart was foreperson on the Washington D.C. jury that convicted Stone on all seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. Her Facebook post defending the prosecutors in the case got the President's attention Thursday morning.

The March primaries, which lead to the only general election for a countywide position this election year, is the latest skirmish between two factions – those who work in the clerk's offices and those who don't but who have name recognition from other races.